ZOOLOGIE - Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy. Description des Mammifères nouveaux ou imparfaitment connus de la collection du muséum d'Histoire naturelle... Premier (-quatrième) Mémoire. Famille des singes. 4 deliveries in 1 volume. With 14 col. Engravings by Ch. Borromée and J. A. Annedouche after J.-Chr. Werner and 8 (thereof 2 coloured) lithographs by E. G. Bocourt after J.-Chr. Werner. Paris, Gide, (1840-1861). Gr.-4°. 108, 40 pp., pp. 530-584, 100 pp., [1] fol. half morocco of the B.C. with gilt spine title (capitals renewed, somewhat stained and bumped). = Archives du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle vol. II, IV, V and X. - Nissen ZBI 1526. - Browned, in places slightly dampstained or foxed and fingerstained. 2 plates more folded, isolated plates more browned.

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