Descrizione

Lille, l'Institut zoologique de Lille [and] Laboratoire de Zoologie maritime de Wimereux (Pas-de-Calais),1887. 4to (30.3 x 22.3 cm). 224 pp.; 30 text illustrations, ten lithographed plates (tissue-guarded and with explanatory text leaves; several in fine chromolithography). Original printed wrappers. = A finely illustrated monograph. With author's dedications to the Belgian palaeontologist, marine biologist, malacologist, mammalogist and Cetacea specialist, Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden (1809-1894), author of, for instance, Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers. And with the author's complimentary card (printed, with a third address added in ink), mounted on the front wrapper verso. Uncut. Edges, therefore, a bit rough, with the wrappers partly chipped (especially at ront bottom), ypine reinforced long time ago, yet partly abraded. Internally a very good copy.