GRANDVILLE (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard dit) Lot n° 34

Scenes from the private life of animals. Etude de moeurs contemporaines publiée sous la direction de P.-J. Stahl, avec la collaboration de Balzac, L'Héritier, Alfred et Paul de Musset, Nodier, Madame Menessier Nodier, George Sand, Louis Viardot, Jules Janin. Paris, J. Hetzel et Paulin éditeurs, 1842. Two volumes in-4 (27x19 cm), dark green half-calf (a little rubbed), spine (a little faded) smooth decorated with special gilded irons illustrating animals. First collective edition, illustrated with 95 and 105 plates and numerous vignettes. 386 and 390 pages (some foxing to the blank leaves at the head and end of the volumes and tiny foxing to the second volume). Copy printed on beautiful white paper