Ostéographie des Cétacés Vivants et Fossils: Comprenant la description et l'iconographie du squelette et du système dentaire de ces animaux, 2 volumes complete

Pp. viii, 634, 1 map; (2), 67 fine lithographed plates by Delahaye (plates are numbered 1-64 with three additional bis plates, a number of plates are double-page and folding). Text volume bound in dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the original printed bright yellow wrappers bound in place, sm thick folio (13 x 10.25 x 2.5 inches). Plate volume in its original portfolio state in bright yellow printed wrappers, lg folio (22 x 14.25 inches). Monographs the osteology of both living and fossil cetaceans. This text and atlas present both the skeletal and dental anatomy of a variety of whales in a comparative perspective as well providing details of cetacean natural history. See also British Museum (Natural History) Catalogue, page 134. From the library of Case Western Reserve medical researcher and physician, Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf, with his bookplate on the front endpaper of the text volume.