Plates signed: Prêtre delint. ; Vic[toi]re Plée, V. Plée sculpt

"De l'Imprimerie de Lachevardiere fils" --Verso of half-title

Pagination: t. 1: xij, 308, [2], 309-448 p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded col. maps, frontis. port.); t. 2: vij, [2], 492 p., [8] leaves of plates; t. 3: [4], xvj, 480 p., [16] leaves of plates; t. 4: [4], vij, [1], 439, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates; t. 5: viij, 403, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates. T. 1 includes folded table, not included in paging

Wording of title differs slightly in t. 5: "principalement" is used in place of "particuliérement."

Includes bibliographical references

Tome 1. Aspect général des Alpes maritimes. Coup d'il général sur les environs de Nice. Observations meteorologiques. Aperçu du règne végétal -- t. 2. Suite de l'aperçu du règne végétal -- t. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons -- t. 4. Mollusques. Annélides -- t. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes

Pritzel (2nd ed.)

BM (NH)

Dean, B. Biblio. of fishes

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

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SCNHRB has 2 copies, both made-up sets; c. 2 of t. 1 & 5 only

SCNHRB c. 1, t. 1-4 (39088015068208, 39088015068240, 39088015068281, 39088015068323) has label on front paste-down endpaper: Library of Congress, Smithsonian Deposit

SCNHRB c. 1 has stamp on t.p. of t. 1: Smithsonian Institution, with accession no. added in ink: 145379; stamp on verso of half-title of t. 2-4: Smithsonian Institution U.S. National Museum, with accession nos. added in ink: 326026; 326027; 326028

SCNHRB c. 1, t. 5 (39088015068364) has stamps on prelims.: Division Marine Invertebrates, carded 1963; Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie, Reptiles et Poissons (over-stamped with "cession autorisee"); Invertebrate Zoology, Crustacea

SCNHRB c. 1, t. 5 has printed label mounted on half-title: Coll. Emile Moreau, 1896

SCNHRB c. 1, t. 5 has final leaf of plates bound in upside-down

SCNHRB c. 1, t. 1-4 copy bound in old black half-leather with marbled paper boards, gilt-tooled spine, and red-sprinkled edges; t. 5 bound in brown embossed quarter leather with mottled paper boards; gilt-tooled spine; raised bands; brown sprinkled edges; and marbled endpapers

SCNHRB c. 2, t. 1 (39088015068406) has las two leaves damaged with loss of some text

SCNHRB c. 2, t. 1 has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library

SCNHRB c. 2, t. 5 (39088015068448) has stamps on verso of half-title and on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution U.S. Natural Museum, accession no. 326029; United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, July 4, 1893, accession no.: 145379

SCNHRB c. 2, t. 5 has a few penciled annotations in an unknown hand

SCNHRB c. 2, t. 1 bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine; t. 5 is bound in old half-leather with marbled paper boards; gilt-lettered spine; marbled endpapers and edges. The back board is wanting

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