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79 - LACEPEDE (Etienne de Laville, Count of) and CUVIER (Georges)…
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Estimate CHF 6,000 - CHF 8,000
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LACEPEDE (Etienne de Laville, Count of) and CUVIER (Georges): The Menagerie of the National Museum of Natural History, or A Description and History of the Animals Living There or Having Lived There; by the citizens LACEPEDE and CUVIER. Paris, published by Miger, Paris, Grandcher and Dentu, Year X–1801; large folio, half white vellum, 1 folio with endpapers. No. of chapters, 9 pp. per chapter. Includes the introduction and 39 engraved plates, all in two states, one of which is finely coloured contemporary, accompanied by an explanatory text of 2 to 8 pp. A fine copy; it is complete with all 39 plates as indicated in the index. From the library of Henry Tronchin, bearing his ex libris and the label of the Château de Bessinge. Brunet, III, 725 and Monglon, V, 873–874.
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About the sale AUCTION: Slatkine Library
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Auction time 09/22/2026 at 6:30 PM
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