CAP HORN. Ministries of the Navy and Public Instruction Scientific... Lot 26

[CAP HORN]. Ministries of the Navy and Public Instruction Scientific mission to Cape Horn. 1882-1883. Volume VII : Ethnography, by Paul Hyades & J. Deniker. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1891. In-4 (268 x 209 mm) of VII, 422 pp, 1 f.n.ch., 1 color map, 34 plates (21 in heliogravure and 6 double page). Modern beige percale, smooth spine, cover preserved. Nissen, ZBI, 1695. First edition. The complete part devoted to anthropology and ethnography, written by Paul Hyades and J. Deniker. The 21 plates in heliogravure show characters, their fishing tools and their dwellings; the other plates with anthropological elements taken from bones.