4:o in publishers contemporary black cloth binding richly decorated in gilt, blue, green and purple. All edges gilt. Slight edgewear. Very good/near fine. Browning to the empty yellow endpapers, else a clean and fresh copy with only occasional light spots. With 30 tissue-guarded handcolored lithographique plates with 3 species on each + 18 tuned lithographs and numerous b/w illustrations in the text. (II), XXVIII, 387 p. , (I) + plates. (Les trois règnes de la nature. Règne végétal.)