Dec 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2689 -

Sale 2689 - Lot 212

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(NATURAL HISTORY -- MARINE SPONGE PHYSIOLOGY.) Yves Delage. Embryogenie des Eponges. 8 double-page color-lithographed plates extra illustrated with the artist's original watercolor sketches for each clipped and mounted to 8 equivalent double-page maquettes. 8vo, 9½x6½ inches, attractive 20th-century morocco-backed green cloth; moderate foxing and corner dampstain to the plates; title leaf signed by the author. [Paris: Archives de Zoologie, 1892]