Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries
By: par MM. P. Barker-Webb et Sabin Berthelot ; ouvrage publiés sous les auspices de M. Guizot, Ministre de l'instruction publique
Contributors: Berthelot, Sabin, 1794-1880; Oudart, P. L. (Paul Louis), 1796-1860, ill; Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865; Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896, former owner; Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932, former owner
Publisher: Béthune, éditeur
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Natural history; Botany; Pictorial works; Fishes
Notes: Engraved half titles and added illustrated half titles to each ptie.

Issued in parts.

Illustrations by Paul Louis Oudart.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, p. 621

BM (Nat. hist), v. 5, p. 2276

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has one set, incomplete without the atlas and possibly some leaves in t. 3, ptie 2, and 2 separate portions of t. 2, ptie 2 making up the 2nd & 3rd copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 has stamped on t.p.s: Smithsonian Institution U.S. National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 270127-270133.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine except for t. 3, ptie 2 which is in original printed paper boards (lacking half titles?).

SCNHRB c. 2 is only of t. 2, ptie 2, Ichthyologie section. Stamped on t.p.s: Division of Fishes.

SCNHRB c. 2 has signature of G. Brown Goode on green front endpaper of t. 2, ptie 2.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in green library buckram, title in gilt on spine; housed in an archival drop-back box with bookplate: Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

SCNHRB c. 3 is only of t. 2, ptie 2, Ornithologie section.

SCNHRB c. 3 stamped on front wrapper and half title: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [ms. acc. no.] 254480.

SCNHRB c. 3 half bound in brown sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, orange endpapers; original printed paper wrappers bound-in.
Table of contents: title: Tome 1, ptie 1. L'Ethnographie et les annales de la conquête (1842), t. 1, ptie 2. Les Miscellanées canariennes (1839); title: t. 2, ptie 1. La Géographie descriptive, la statistique et la géologie (1839); title: t. 2, ptie 2. La Zoologie (1836-1844); title: t. 3, ptie 1. La Géographie botanique (1840); title: t. 3, ptie 2. Sectio ultima. Phytographia canariensis (1840); title: t. 3, ptie 2. Sectio II-III. Phytographia canariensis (1836-1850); title: Atlas (1838).