CHENU, J.C.

Leçons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle comprenant un aperçu sur toute la zoologie et un traité de Conchyliologie.

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Paris, Dauvin et Fontaines/ J.J. Dubochet, le Chevalier, 1847. Royal-8vo. pp. lxxxvii, 284, with 863 figures in the text and 12 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, richly gilt ornamented spine.

B.M.(Nat. Hist.)I, 341. A slightly different edition appeared the same year published by Dubochet et Le Chevalier. A finely illustrated handbook dealing nearly exclusively with conchology. Pages lxxxvii deal with general zoological matter, the following 284 with mollusca. All the beautiful plates depict shells and are engraved by Prêtre.