Nouvelles Illustrations de Zoologie; New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript Birds, with a few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects Publisher Cambridge University Press Publisher

Publisher Cambridge University Press Publisher Place Cambridge Date Published 2012 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description A tight and bright copy in fine (new) condition

spine with five raised bands

15 full page chromolithograph plates (1 ornate chromolithograph title page + 14 chromolithographs of butterflies and moths

Color pictorial dust jacket

Nouvelles Illustrations de Zoologie; New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript Birds, with a few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects Publisher Cambridge University Press PublisherIn two complete volumes (one hand colored volume and one proof copy with monochrome plates) Pp. (8), 1 136, 50 hand colored lithograph plates + Pp. (8), 50 monochrome lithograph plates, pp. 1 136. Early 20th century full calf leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment on a red morocco title label and with elaborate gilt decorations in the other five compartments, base of spine of each volume has gilt lettered date of