Published in 100 copies only
      
    Bourguignat, J. R.
Histoire des Felidae fossiles constatés en France dans les dépots de la période quaternaire.
                  Published
                  1879
                
                
                  Item ID
                  65951
                
                
              
                    
      €380.00
          
                              
        
Paris, Jules Tremblay, 1879. Very large 4to (36.3 x 27.8 cm). 54 pp.; one large, folded, lithographed plate. Original printed front wrapper, mounted.
One of the few mammalian publications by the French malacologist Jules-René Bourguignat (1829-1892). As with most of Bourguignat's publications, there were only 100 copies printed. It includes the description and illustration of new species of wild cats. Uncut, with very wide margins. Some (mostly marginal) spotting, otherwise a good, unmarked copy. Nissen ZBI, 500. Not in Wood.