[Curmer, L.]

Spécimen de gravures sur bois. (Extrait des trois regnes de la nature, edités par L. Curmer)

Paris: Paul Dupont, 1855. Wood engraved portrait by Étienne Bocourt, on India paper, of a man surrounded by a frog, lizard, snake and turtle, mounted and laid in to a printed bifolium; wear to the top corners but not touching print, fine. Newberry records a book of this title with 108 pages and speculates that it was produced for the Exposition universelle de 1855. All copies that we could find of a complete Regnes de la Nature edited by Curmer did not include reptiles as a category, suggesting to us that the project was dropped before completion. Item #60635

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