Les Mammiferes de l’Indochine: Les Gibbons with 54 full page lithographed

with 54 full page lithographed plates (17 plates are hand-colored or partly hand-colored)

Taiwan and the Philippines

In the spring of 1833

this volume is remembered today for its well-executed hand-colored plates

It deserves a place in every colour plate collection for its numerous attractive coloured vignettes

Les Mammiferes de l’Indochine: Les Gibbons with 54 full page lithographedPp. 40, (1, contents); 1 color printed map, 3 color printed plates of gibbons. Contemporary one half brown calf leather over marbled boards with gilt lettered brown leather author title label on the upper cover with later French marbled endpapers added in, (original pictorial stiff front wrapper bound in place), sm 4to. This monograph on the gibbons (Hylobates) of Indochina was written by herpetologist Rene Bourret (1884 1957), better known for his