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403 - BRUYSSEL (Ernest van). The Story of an Aquarium and Its Inhabitants. Illustrations by RIOU, based on works by Léon BECKER. Color plates printed by G. SILBERMANN. Paris, Bibliothèque d’éducation et de récréation. J. Hetzel et Cie, n.d.
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BRUYSSEL (Ernest van). The Story of an Aquarium and Its Inhabitants. Illustrations by RIOU, based on works by Léon BECKER. Color plates printed by G. SILBERMANN. Paris, Bibliothèque d’éducation et de récréation. J. Hetzel et Cie, n.d. Small in-4, red percaline cardboard binding with the publisher’s black and gold decoration. Price stamp from the Lycée de Lons-le-Saunier on the front cover. Binding faded, gold lettering worn, pronounced foxing. Handwritten ex-libris in brown ink at the top of the half-title page. 6 color plates of natural history. Rare binding featuring the “Snow Star” design, which would later be reused for Jules Verne’s *Five Weeks in a Balloon*.
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