Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède

New edition directed by M.A.G. Demarest.
Half navy blue calf bindings, spines with four raised bands set with triple gilt fillets and decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt friezes at foot of spines, some light rubbing to certain spines or headcaps, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, corners slightly bumped.
Some light foxing.
Our copy lacks the 189 watercolored and gummed plates that appear in most copies.