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Paris: J. Rothschild, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Light, scattered foxing, including to some plates; bookplate on front pastedown; light rubbing to joints. Very Good. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in 3/4 burgundy morocco and marbled boards with gilt rules and lettering, five raised bands, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 50 fine chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, with tissue guards, and 244 figures in the text.