André SANSON

Third edition.
Full black cloth binding, smooth spine, minor epidermis damage to boards, two small lacks to one joint, an ink stain affecting the margins but not the text.
Work illustrated with 34 figures in the text.

Third edition with some parts in first edition as revised and corrected.
The first volume is part of the third printing of the third edition, the following volumes are part of the second printing.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and showing minor rubbing on some volumes, spines decorated with gilt floral motifs, three joints with slight lacks at heads, blind fillet frames on red cardboard boards, boards of first volume discolored, contemporary bindings.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.
Some foxing.
Rare.