Cuvier, Georges L.C., Baron.

First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Sir Philip Crampton (President of the RCSI), 4 volumes, 4to (261 x 207mm.), half-titles, 155 engraved plates, some folding, including a hand-coloured map, nineteenth-century half calf, library stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, [Nissen ZBI 1011; Ward and Carozzi 566], some soiling, spotting and fraying, additions and corrections at end of vol.1 holed with loss, binding rebacked

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