Paris

First edition in French, printed on vergé paper.
Publisher’s Arabesque yellow paper binding by A. Lenègre, spine with gilt, black, and turquoise Arabic decorative motifs, upper cover richly ornamented with Arabic decorative motifs in gilt, black and turquoise with a frame of gilt and black fillets, turquoise paper pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.
Text by Alfred Edmund Brehm & Johannes Dumichen.
The work is illustrated with 24 watercolors after nature by Charles Werner.
A few small insignificant spots, miniscule hole to first turquoise endpaper, discreet repairs to boards.
A good and rare copy.