Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons maps and text-figures

maps and text-figures

spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines and other gilt decorations

Publisher’s original blind-stamped green pebble cloth

French or German

Dark green half morocco

Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons maps and text-figuresPp. 200, 17 full page plates 15 are beautiful chromolithograph plates finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel (each plate has an accompanying page of descriptive text). Quarter red morocco with five raised bands, gilt lettered on the spine over French marbled boards with matching French marbled endpapers (original gray printed wrappers are bound in place), folio (14. 25 x 11 inches). This work was issued