71 - [Natural History] [Botany] CAP (Paul-Antoine). The Natural History Museum. A history of the institution’s founding and successive developments, along with biographies of the famous figures who contributed to it through their teaching or discoveries. Paris, Curmer, 1854. 2 parts in one large 8vo volume, contemporary red half-shagreen, gilt fillet framing the covers, all edges gilt. Pages 176–180 of the first part are missing.

[Natural History] [Botany] CAP (Paul-Antoine). The Natural History Museum. A history of the institution’s founding and successive developments, along with biographies of the famous figures who contributed to it through their teaching or discoveries. Paris, Curmer, 1854. 2 parts in one large 8vo volume, contemporary red half-shagreen, gilt fillet framing the covers, all edges gilt. Pages 176–180 of the first part are missing. First edition illustrated with a frontispiece, 41 plates (separate from the text), 15 of which are colored and depict mainly flowers and birds, 16 portraits of naturalists (Buffon, Daubenton, Tournefort, Jussieu, Lamarck, Linnaeus…), and 3 maps. Includes: GRIMARD (Ed.). A Naturalist’s Journey Around the World: The Acclimatization Garden. Paris, Hetzel, n.d. One in-8 volume, in brown half-maroquin. Scattered foxing. Insets based on drawings by Benette and vignettes in the text by Lallemand.