A. Belin

First separate edition of this memoir by Faujas de Saint-Fond, issued from volume XIX of the Annales du Muséum d’histoire naturelle with its own title-page and the imprint of A. Belin. It is illustrated with an hors-texte copper-engraved plate by Plée after Turpin, still bearing at the head the indications “Tom. 19” and “Pl. 20” from its original appearance in the Annales (Pritzel 2823).

 

A pleasing copy preserved in its original state, in temporary pink paper wrappers. In the CCFr, we have located copies only at the Institut, Rouen and Montpellier; no copy appears to be currently recorded in the general catalogue of the BnF.

First edition.
Half burgundy Russia morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with a cartouche, arabesques and gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, very light traces of rubbing without significance to joints, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, bookplate pasted on pastedown, elegant romantic pastiche binding signed by Pagnant.
Work illustrated with an engraving as frontispiece representing Maximilien de Robespierre.
Rare and handsome copy attractively bound in a signed binding by Pagnant.