BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT (Jean-Baptiste)
Sur l'Anthropologie de l'Afrique française, lu à l'Académie des Sciences dans sa séance du 30 juin 1845
s. n.|No Location • Paris s. d. [1845]|13.5 x 21.7 cm|Relié
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this excerpt from the Magasin de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et de paléontologie, published by M. Guérin-Méneville in October 1845.
Contemporary bottle green full shagreen binding, flat spine with gilt fillets and no lettering, single gilt fillet frame on covers, title gilt-stamped in the center of the upper cover.
Illustrated with 3 hand-colored plates numbered 59–61 at the end of the volume.
This is the last text published during the lifetime of the great naturalist Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (who died on 22 December 1846); L'Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie appeared largely posthumously.
Some occasional light foxing.
€580