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Documents Zoologiques pour Servir a la Monographie des Cheiropteres sud-Americains. with 9 leaves of plates
by Gervais, M. Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Paris: P. Bertrand. Fair with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. p. 25-87, [9] leaves of plates. Memoire accompagne de neuf planches lithographiees. Extrait de la Zoologie de l'Expedition dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud, pubnliee sous la direction de M. le comte Francis de Castelnau. Original green hard paper boards are worn and aged, spine perished, corners of boards rubbed and chipped, small lack at bottom front joint. Interior first page has old institution impressed stamp, paper thinned and partly missing at top and bottom gutter margin, otherwise clean and unmarked. Pages 72-87 heavily browned, fore-edges somewhat chipped. Plates have some foxing but otherwise clean (starts with Plate 7 as called for), plate 15 has another institutional embossure. Needs to be resewn. Aged but complete, very scarce.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Leaf and Stone Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004535
- Title
- Documents Zoologiques pour Servir a la Monographie des Cheiropteres sud-Americains. with 9 leaves of plates
- Author
- Gervais, M. Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- P. Bertrand
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- Bats;, Chiropteres;, South, America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; History: South America;
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Leaf and Stone Books
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Toronto, Ontario
About Leaf and Stone Books
Formerly Greekdrama Books Specializing in classical, medieval and ancient languages, history and cultures; antiquarian and unusual books; and interesting used books. We also carry many early printed books, particularly in the subjects of classics and religion, including incunabula and manuscripts.
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- First Edition
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- Fair
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