Essai sur L’histoire Naturelle des Vertebres de la Province et des Departements Circonvoisins: Vertebres Anallantantoidiens (Poissons et Batraciens) containing scientific descriptions of above

containing scientific descriptions of above one hundred and thirty species

Publisher’s original gray textured boards

He is probably best known from his truly immense work ‘Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatamala

This appears to the large paper copy

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)

Essai sur L’histoire Naturelle des Vertebres de la Province et des Departements Circonvoisins: Vertebres Anallantantoidiens (Poissons et Batraciens) containing scientific descriptions of abovePp. (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