Issued in 16 parts "According to the Bibliographie de la France the dates of publication of the several parts were: livr. 1 (2 sh.) 20 March 1830; livr. 2 (2 sh.) 2 October, 1830; livr. 3 (1 sh.) 29 January, 1831; livr. 6-8 (3 sh.) 9 July, 1831; livr. 13-16 (3 1/4 s.) 19 May, 1832" --BM (Nat. hist.) Engravers include Coutant; Guyard; Leleu; Mme. Massard; Mlle. Massard; Mlle. Perrot; Talbaux (Talbot); and Victor. Plates printed by Langlois "Strasbourg, de l'imprimerie de F.G. Levrault"--Verso of half title Includes bibliographical references and indexes BM (Nat. hist) Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration extracted picklist SCNHRB has two copies, one incomplete SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015066335) has uncolored plates SCNHRB c. 1 has stamp on front paste-down: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California; date added in ms. ink: 10.III.1967 SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate on box: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Gift of Clyde Roper SCNHRB c. 1 has pencilled annotations in Berry's hand on back paste-down endpaper, concerning copies of this work featured in catalogs from Wheldon & Wesley and Quaritch SCNHRB c. 1 in original publisher's printed gray paper boards; "1832" in imprint and printed on spine; publisher's advertisements on back cover; uncut; housed in an archival cardboard box SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015066376) imperfect: lacking t.p. and other preliminaries (x, [1]), of text p. 12-17, 220-244, and plates 76-80; other missing pages (as well as t.p.) supplied in typescript SCNHRB c. 2 has uncolored plates SCNHRB c. 2 typescript t.p. stamped: Smithsonian Institution U.S. National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 283856 SCNHRB c. 2 bound in green library buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers