Histoire naturelle des mammifères
Subtitle: avec des figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'aprèsdes animaux vivans
By: publiée sous l'autorité de l'administration du Muséum d'histoire naturelle , par M. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire ... et par M. Frédéric Cuvier ...
Contributors: Cuvier, Frédéric, 1773-1838
Publisher: Chez A. Belin ...
Published: 1824
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Mammals
Notes: Published in 72 parts (i.e. livraisons) between 1824-42.  Tomes 1-3 consist of 20 livraisons each; t. 4 consists of 12 livraisons.  Title pages for livraisons 1-60 are dated 1824; title page for livraisons 61-72 is 1842.  The text and corresponding plates are each dated separately within each livraison, each predating the publication date stated on the title page, and are dated as follows:  v. 1-2 = livraisons 1-20 (Dec. 1818 - Sept. 1820) -- v. 3-4 = livraisons 21-40 (Oct. 1820 - April 1823)-- v. 5-6 = livraisons 41-60 ( May 1824 - Oct. 1829)-- v. 7 = livraisons 61-72 (dated Oct. 1829 - Sept. 1842).

Title page vignettes (publishers' initials).

Tome 7 has imprint: A Paris : Chez Blaise ..., 1842.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy has table of contents bound in v. 7.

Prospectus and publisher (Chez Blaise) advertisements (8 p.) tipped in t. 1.

Stamped on t.p.s: Library U.S. National Museum Sep 16 1889; written in ink within the stamp: 134058.

Ms. caption sheets bound in in t. 3 (2), t. 4 (5), t. 6 (1), and t. 7 (5).