Essai sur L’histoire Naturelle des Vertebres de la Province et des Departements Circonvoisins: Vertebres Anallantantoidiens (Poissons et Batraciens) Publisher’s original gray textured boards

Publisher’s original gray textured boards

The Pomona was issued in seven parts and sold by subscription

17 full page plates - 15 are beautiful chromolithograph plates finished by hand and heightened with gum-arabic by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel (each plate has an accompanying page of descriptive text)

Contemporary brown three-quarter morocco leather

From the series: Die Pilze Mitteleuropas

Essai sur L’histoire Naturelle des Vertebres de la Province et des Departements Circonvoisins: Vertebres Anallantantoidiens (Poissons et Batraciens) Publisher’s original gray textured boardsPp. (7), 8 425 (3, index); 44 text figures (line drawings and halftones of fishes and frogs). Publishers original reddish cloth over marbled boards, the spine is lettered in gilt and with blind stamped panel lines, original marbled endpapers, sm 4to (10 x 6. 5 inches; 255 x 170 mm). This work provides a natural history of the fishes and amphibians inhabiting the southern provinces of France. Jean Marius Francois Reguis (1850 1908) studied pharmacy at