[Collective] Le Jardin des Plantes. Complete, historical and picturesque description of the Museum of Natural History, the Menagerie, the Greenhouses, the Galleries of Mineralogy and Anatomy and the Swiss Valley. Animal Behaviors and Instincts, Botany, Comparative Anatomy. Mineralogy, Geology, Zoology. by P. Bernard, L. Couailhac, Gervais and Emm. Lemaout. And a Society of Scholars attached to the Museum of Natural History. Paris, Curmer, 1842, 2 volumes in-4 bound in half-chagrin, spines decorated. Illustrated with 133 and 50 plates, engraved on wood and steel, of which 33 colored and 2 plans. Numerous engravings in text, foxing in places.

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