statement of responsibility: par J.-Cés. Sauvigny]

Extracted from: France. Commission des sciences et arts d'Égypte. Description de l'Égypte. Histoire naturelle. Atlas

Title written in pencil on front free endpaper

Each plate is printed on double leaves

Each plate has a range of dates engraved at the bottom, e.g. "Dessiné et gravé en 1805-1812."

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SCNHRB copy 39088009225178 has stamp: Library, Division of Crustacea

SCNHRB copy has a handwritten list ([3] p.) of the plates, with the names of the species depicted on them, tipped in at the front of the volume

SCNHRB copy has photocopies of 4 articles related to this work inserted in a pocket at the end of the volume. The articles include: 1. Sherborn, C. Davies. "On the dates of the natural history portion of Savigny's 'Description de l'Égypte," from Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1897), p. 285-288; 2. Dr. H. G. Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs, fünfter Bd., I. Abt., 7. Buch (Decapoda), p. 1926, 2019; 3. Stebbings, G. "Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger ... 1873-76," Zoology, v. 29, p. 127, 120; 4. Audouin, Victor. Explication sommaire des planches des crustacés de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, [2], 79-98 p

SCNHRB copy has later red buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine

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