Leclercq

Original edition.
Binding open marine sorrow, back with five nerves set with gold dotted boxes decorated with double gold richly decorated with gilded decorative motifs, floral friezes, gold wheels on the covers, frames a set of triple gilt fillets on covers, gilt lace on contreplats, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, double gilt fillets on the cuts, gilt edges, superb contemporary binding signed Capé.
Signed autograph of the author and miss Madame Lebon.
Book illustrated with 389 figures in the text.
A pale marginal wetting affecting the title page and dwindling over the first 50 sheets, rare spots.

Second edition for the first text, first edition of the second.
Half green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt roulettes, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Edition illustrated with numerous figures in the text and two folding plates outside the text on zoology.
Headcaps worn, traces of rubbing, some foxing.
Rare.