Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1846. Folio (35.0 x 25.9 cm). 39 pp.; six lithographed plates, of which one a hand-coloured map and the others showing fossils, mainly molluscs. Near contemporary blind quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards. Original blind blue wrappers bound in.

A well-illustrated work which includes the illustrations and descriptions of rather well-preserved cretaceous invertebrates (chiefly molluscs and echinoderms), including many described as new. The author, Alexandre Félix Gustave Achille Leymerie (1801-1878) was one of the leading French geologists of the time, the first geology professor at the University of Toulouse and corresponding member of the French Academie des Sciences. This copy is from the library of Christian Horace Bénédict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804-1863), with his typical dark green boards. Moquin-Tandon is widely regarded as the father of modern malacology. With a signed dedication by Leymerie to Moquin-Tandon on the front wrapper. Uncut. Fore edges, therefore, uneven. Slight wear to boards, otherwise a very good, clean, unique copy.