DICTIONNAIRE PITTORESQUE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET DES PHENOMENES DE LA NATURE, contenant l'Histoire des animaux, des vegetaux, des mineraux, des meteores, des principaux phenomenes physiques et des curiosites naturelles...
first edition Hardcover
1833 · Paris, France
by Guerin-Meneville, F.-E. (Felix-Edouard) (1799-1874)
Paris, France: Au Bureau de Souscription, 1833. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Royal octavo (tall 8vo). Nine volumes of text, plus three volumes containing a total of 720 plates. Original hardcover bindings: Attractive dark green quarter leather (leather spine) with marbled paper boards. Minor shelfwear and rubbing, with several minor instances of peeling to surface layer of leather; each volume protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Minimal foxing to text. Text in French, printed in two columns per page. The three plate volumes are moderately sunned on spine. Although about 25 plates are partially hand-colored, this is to be considered a non-colored edition. Four plates with tears, each slightly affecting image. Approximately half of the plates are slightly and uniformly toned. A few dozen plates have minor foxing and/or soiling to the edges, another few dozen have the fore-edge of the plates trimmed by the binder affecting the plate number and in a few instances the images, and a few plates with minor creasing to the top corner. Title continues "...avec des details sur l'emploi des productions des trois regnes dans les usages de la vie, les arts et metiers et le manufactures. Redige par une Societe de Naturalistes, sous la direction de M. F.-E. Guerin." Volume I: viii, 640 pages of text. II: iv, 640pp. III: iv, 640pp. IV: iv, 640pp. Small page tear to page 581-2 with loss of several words of text. V: iv, 640pp. VI: iv, 640pp. VII: iv, 640pp. VIII: iv, 640pp. IX: iv, 664pp. followed by a 12 page table (index) to the atlas (plates). Gue´rin-Me´neville, F.-E. (Fe´lix-Edouard). (Inventory #: 006674)