[Cattle. Text volume and plate volume] (1) Les Races Bovines au Concours
Universel Agricole de Paris en 1856. Emile Baudement. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1861-62. 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.
With (1) the maps of France 2x, Austria-Hungary, Central and Southern Germany and Great Britain with Holland and Denmark. With (2) the interleaves with text: Iles Brittaniques, Hollande et Danemarck, Suisse et Allemagne, Empire d'Autriche, France and complete with 87 full-page photo-engravings by Baudran, Riffaut et al. after J. Melin et al. Bindings with minor imperfections, text volume with mild staining; plate volume in very good condition. (total 2)