Les chats. Histoire, moeurs, observations, anecdotes

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.