Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons The fine hand-coloring this work

The fine hand-coloring this work is superior to the Curtis Botanical Magazine images

Early fine-weave blue cloth

French or German

spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines and other gilt decorations

Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons The fine hand-coloring this workPp. 200, 17 full page plates 15 are beautiful chromolithograph plates finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel (each plate has an accompanying page of descriptive text). Quarter red morocco with five raised bands, gilt lettered on the spine over French marbled boards with matching French marbled endpapers (original gray printed wrappers are bound in place), folio (14. 25 x 11 inches). This work was issued