Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale: Études sur les Xiphosures et les Crustacés de la région Mexicaine Publisher’s original blue cloth

Publisher’s original blue cloth

It was later published in 1765 under the title ‘A Treatise on Domestic Pigeons’ in an edition of only 750 copies

Attractive bookplate of Thomas Perry on the front endpaper

Contains fantastic color photos of numerous rare mammal and reptile species

when the work was edited by R

Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale: Études sur les Xiphosures et les Crustacés de la région Mexicaine Publisher’s original blue clothPp. (6), 368 + 61 full page plates each with descriptive text leaf (11 are chromolithographs or hand colored, 50 are halftones on tan backgrounds). Early fine weave blue cloth, thick folio (14. 25 x 11 inches). This work documents the horseshoe crabs and crustaceans of the coastal waters of Mexico. This monograph is the fifth volume of a 13 volume work entitled "Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale," which was the French