Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons the original green printed wrappers

the original green printed wrappers are bound in at rear

Early fine-weave blue cloth

French or German

500 full-page hand-colored plates

with 100 full-page hand-colored lithographs by W

Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons the original green printed wrappersPp. 200, 17 full page plates 15 are beautiful chromolithograph plates finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel (each plate has an accompanying page of descriptive text). Quarter red morocco with five raised bands, gilt lettered on the spine over French marbled boards with matching French marbled endpapers (original gray printed wrappers are bound in place), folio (14. 25 x 11 inches). This work was issued