RENGADE, Jules. Natural creation and living beings:. General - Lot 103

RENGADE, Jules. Natural creation and living beings:. General history of the terrestrial world, plants, animals and man. Published in Paris by Librairie Illustrée in 1885. In quarto / In-4 format. Mahogany half-chagrin. Spine decorated with cold filets, double cold filets boxes with central gilt fleuron, author and title in gilt letters. 807-XII pages, numerous black & white engravings in the text, some color plates. Text framed in black double fillet. Slight scuffing and rubbing to boards, dull edges and corners, fragile seam between spine and signatures. Second volume of this natural history work by Jules Rengade, devoted to zoology and human races (animals - zoophytes - worms - mollusks - echinoderms - arthropods - vertebrates - humans), with descriptions of the most remarkable species in terms of their development, organization, habits and usefulness in nature, and numerous black and colored figures in and out of the text. A good copy, internally clean and free of foxing.