Pierre Étienne Simon DUCHARTRE

First edition.
Half chocolate shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments, light rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Some light foxing.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full flexible dark brown percaline, smooth spine decorated with quadruple blind compartments, publisher's name gilt at foot, quadruple blind fillets framing the boards, binding slightly and uniformly faded.
Work illustrated with 506 figures drawn by A. Riocreux.
Endpapers lightly and partially shaded, some minor foxing of no great consequence.