DELEUZE (Joseph). History and description of the Royal Museu - Lot 274

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DELEUZE (Joseph). History and description of the Royal Museu - Lot 274
DELEUZE (Joseph). History and description of the Royal Museum of Natural History. Paris, Royer, 1823. In-8, VI-720 p., period fawn boards, smooth spine, gilt title and fillets, yellow edges (headbands rubbed, inner hinge split, brown spots). The illustration consists of 17 engraved plates: 3 folding plans engraved by E. Collin, 14 views of gardens, architecture or animals of the menagerie engraved by E. Aubert after G. Cathelineau. It is joined: - BOITARD (M). The Garden of plants. Description and habits of the mammals of the Menagerie and the Museum of Natural History. Preceded by a historical, descriptive and picturesque introduction by Mr. J. Janin. Paris, Dubochet, 1842. Fort in-4, blue cloth-covered publisher's boards, the boards decorated with a large repeated gilt plate, spine decorated with a gilt composition including the title [Kronheim], gilt edges (binding seriously uninsolated, with stains on the boards, inner hinges split, plan torn but not missing, qq. freckles, sup. bit cracked) Illustrated with 4 coloured plates, 51 woodcuts including a frontispiece, 2 portrait plates, a folding map, and numerous vignettes in the text. - MUSEUM of the young naturalist, figures of the principal animals of creation, with their description and the history of their habits after Buffon, Cuvier, Audubon, Vaillant, Latrille, Lacépède, Daubenton, Huber. Paris, L. Curmer, [1842]. In-4, in sheets, burgundy percaline publisher's folder, title and gilt frame on upper cover, eagle with spread wings in the centre of the lower cover after a plate by Kronheim in a cold frame (folder heavily faded, holes in the margins of the first 2 double f., brownings). One double leaf (false-title, title) and 30 folded captioned plates (including the title-frontispices). The work was probably originally mounted on tabs. That is to say 3 volumes.
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