Moquin-Tandon, A.Livre Rare Book
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Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale: Études sur les Xiphosures et les Crustacés de la région Mexicaine
2827Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1881. First edition. The last plate has been professionally reattached at the gutter margin there is no damage to the plate image this large volume shows no signs of use; a bright and clean near fine copy. . Pp. 6 368 61 full page plates each with descriptive text leaf 11 are chromolithographs or hand-colored 50 are halftones on tan backgrounds. Early fine-weave blue cloth thick folio 14.25 x 11 inches. This work documents the horseshoe crabs and crustaceans of the coastal waters of Mexico. This monograph is the fifth volume of a 13-volume work entitled "Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale" which was the French competitor to the British "Biologia Centrali-Americana" that also documented the plant and animal life of Central America. This fifth volume is the complete work on the horseshoe crabs and crustaceans of Mexico. The fine plates are well executed works of art. This monograph is very scarce. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1881. First edition hardcover
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