Le Jardin Des Plantes. Description Complete, Historique et Pittoresque Du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle De La Menagerie, Des Serres, Des Galeries De Mineralogie et d’Anatomie, et De La Vallee Suisse.

xxiv + 413pp. Half-leather & marbled boards; raised bands; gilt-decorated spine coffers; spine lettering gilt; marbled endpapers. Countless wood & steel engraved plates and textual illustrations; 12 hand-coloured colourpates. Extremities rubbed with slight wear to corners; some light foxing throughout, only marginally affecting a few plates. Text in French. A magnificent volume of 19th century natural history illustrations, with richly glowing colourplates.