[Cattle. Baudement. Text volume and plate volume] (1) Les Races Bovines au Concours

Universel Agricole de Paris en 1856. Emile Baudement. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1861-1862. Oblong large folio (36 x 50 cm), halfleather, title on spine in gilt stamping, marbled endpapers, half title and title with vignette, (2),LXXIV,(2) pp. and 5 coloured steel engravings. (2) Idem. 5 interleaves and complete with 87 images of European cattle breeds.

Ad (1) the maps of France (2x), Austria-Hungary, Central and Southern Germany and Great Britain with Holland and Denmark. Ad (2) the interleaves with text: Iles Brittaniques, Hollande et Danemarck, Suisse et Allemagne, Empire d'Autriche, France and complete with 87 full-page photoengravings by Baudran, Riffaut et al. after J. Melin et al. Bindings with minor imperfections, text volume with staining on first 30 pages; plate volume in good condition.