Meduses. Jellyfish. Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
Le Havre, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle du Havre, 2014.
Folio, 167, [1] (colophon) pages with numerous colour illustrations derived mainly from original artwork from Baudin's expedition (including large colour plates of 96 different species of jellyfish).
Quarter cloth and colour pictorial papered boards, in the cloth slipcase; a mint copy.
A bi-lingual publication. 'As naturalists on Nicolas Baudin's voyages, François Péron and illustrator Charles-Alexandre Lesueur collected thousands of species, but both men became fascinated with jellyfish. Their work brought the known number of jellyfish species to 120 - over four times as many as had been documented previously. Lesueur's shimmering illustrations created one of the first, and most important, depictions of jellyfish in the world' (publisher's agent's blurb). This book reproduces Lesueur's original artwork on vellum in the Le Havre Museum of Natural History.
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