Encyclopèdie d'Histoire Naturelle, ou Traité Complet de Cette Science d'aprés les Travaux des Naturalistes les Plus Eminents de Tous les Pays et de Toutes les Epoques. Crustacés—Mollusques—Zoophytes

Paris: Marescq et Compagnie; Gustave Havard, [n.d.]. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, tooled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled brown; marbled endpapers; [viii], 312pp; 48 plates. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. Purple stamp of the William H. Floyd Collection to t.p. verso. Straight and sound but externally much rubbed, with board edges and corners exposed, cracks starting at head in both joints; internally with occasional foxing but largely clean: Good or better. Chenu's massive natural history encyclopedia was first published by Marescq, from 1850-1861, and subsequently reprinted by other firms. He received assistance from notable contemporary naturalists; Eugène Desmarest contributed to this volume on crustaceans, mollusks, and zoophytes.