Le Jardin des Plantes en estampes
Rare and modern books
Jules Rostaing (Albert Adam, Illustrator)
Maison Martinet -- Hautecoeur, frères,
1860
Le Jardin des Plantes en estampes
Rare and modern books
Jules Rostaing (Albert Adam, Illustrator)
Maison Martinet -- Hautecoeur, frères,
1860
495.00 €
(Sitges,
Spain)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1860
- Place of printing
- Paris
- Author
- Jules Rostaing (Albert Adam, Illustrator)
- Publishers
- Maison Martinet -- Hautecoeur, frères
- Keyword
- coleillus juvenilia enfantina zoology
- Dust jacket
- True
- Languages
- English
- Inscribed
- True
- First edition
- True
Description
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this rare account of the Jardin des Plantes intended for juveniles, with 24 full-page lithographs by Albert Adam, each depicting numerous exotic animals in zoo settings. 3, 31 pp on thin wove paper + 24 lithographs printed on thick wove paper. Oblong 4to. Attractively bound in publisher's pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities of binding, but very solid. Text pages lightly discolored; lithographs FINE AND BRIGHT. Rare.
