J. Rothschild

Fourth edition.
Half black sheep binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers (with two slight angular lacks at foot) preserved, modern binding.
Work illustrated with 280 portraits and illustrations.
Preface by H. Meilhac and introduction by V. Franconi.
Light foxing on endpapers and verso of covers, otherwise handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments with double blindruled compartments, gilt fleurons at their centre, gilt date to foot of spine, one joint slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, lower corners bumped.
With drawings hors texte and to text by Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Prosper Mérimée, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Ok'Sai, Grandville, and so on.
A little spotting principally affecting first few leaves.
Retaining its rare bande annonce (advertising strip) and a portrait of Champfleury tipped in.

First edition, second edition statement.
Bound in red half roan, smooth spine tooled with blind fillets, as part of red morocco boards of red cardboard, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, mottled head, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Champfleury to Aglaüs Bouvenne.
Book illustrated in drawings and Inserts Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Prosper Mérimée, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Ok'Sai, Grandville ...
Rare spots without gravity.
Provenance: Library of Aglaüs Bouvenne with his bookplate pasted on a contreplat.

First editions, stated the second edition for the second volume on butterflies.
Publisher’s half red shagreen over cloth boards, spine in five compartments with gilt fillets, publisher’s name in gilt to foot, double blindruled fillet frame to covers.
A rare complete set of this handsome publication with a total of more than 1,000 vignettes in text and complete with 122 woodcut plates hors texte of innumerable specimens, most heightened and protected with silk guards: 48 , 50 (49 heightened, 1 in sepia as frontispiece, included in the pagination) and 24 (partly heightened and gummed).
Volume III is more specifically concerned with orthoptera, neuroptera, hymenoptera and so...