Athens

First edition.

Green sheepskin half binding, flat spine decorated with gilt garlands, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, contemporary binding.

A restoration at the head of the spine, a tear with loss to the first endpaper, library stamps (red stamps of the École Sainte-Geneviève on the title page, Jesuit stamp of Jersey "Dom. S. Aloys. Jerseiens S.J." on an endpaper, Bibliothèque jésuite des Fontaines stamp on the half-title.

The present copy was deaccessioned; another copy from the same provenance is held under the shelfmark SJ IG 266/100 in the collections of the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, which now houses the collections of the Bibliothèque des...

First edition.

Bradel binding in modern paper-covered boards of grey-blue stock, smooth spine lettered in black, original wrappers preserved; binding signed Laurenchet.

Label of the fishing library of M. Albert Petit pasted to the upper cover, no. 100.

The species are described in French, with their Latin and Greek names.

Stamp of the Société d'Acclimatation on the title-page.

Original printing with 1000 copies.
Text by Bernard Gheerbrant.
Cover and illusytrations by Alecos Fassianos.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Gheerbrant to Françoise and Pierre (Dumayet): "... With our old friendship born on listening to bearded master of the Zeus of the Sorbonne" enriched with the handwritten signature of Alecos Fassianos.
Pleasant copy.

first edition for which there is no mention of large papers.
Iconography in-fine.
Rare autograph signed by Georges Séféris in Geneviève (Picon).
Pleasant copy despite two light spots on the margin of the first board.