GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Isidore.
Description des collections de Victor Jacquemont. Mammifères et Oiseaux... 1842-43.Paris, Firmin Didot, [1842-43]. Large 4to. With 1 uncoloured and 7 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary vellum-backed boards.
90, (2) pp. Ripley & Scribner, p. 106; Ronsil 1457 (note); Wood, p. 354; Zimmer, p. 240. Very rare offprint of the ornithological and mammalogical section of Jacquemont's Voyage dans l'Inde. The ornithology occupies pages 81-89, and includes Jacquemont's Extrait d'un catalogue d'oiseaux du Cachemir, edited by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.Text-leaves browned, plates fine.
[Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]
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