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circa 31,5 x 22,4 cm., 2 ff., 222 pp., 6 ff., with many woodcuts on the text, 60 plates + 60 extra plates on thin china. Later red half-morocco, upper fore-edge gilded, original wrapper bound-in at end Monod 4353. One of 25 numbered copies (total 350, here Nr. 4 for Jean Borderel) with the woodcuts plates twice on different paper - "un tirage à part fait à la main par le graveur, sur papier Japon pelure, de tous les bois". Illustrations by Florian and Romagnol after François Thévenot, one plate signed by A. Romagnol. - Some foxing in places, mostly clean, nice, in elegant binding.