Large 8vo. , contemporary blue, blindstamped publisher’s cloth. Collation: 2 preliminary blanks, half title with printer’s name on verso, blank with vignette on verso, title, a map, pp. 451, blank, vignette, trailing blanks. Complete with 36 magnificent lithographs in duotone, all protected by tissue guards.
No date, but most likely the early 1850’s. Likely more editions may have been published with the same title page. The plates have been lithographed by Cupper, De Rudder, Gerlier, Lehnert, Marchais, Robinson and Walter and were printed by Auguste Bry, Lemercier and Plista.
