GEORGES CUVIER - 1769-1832 Quadro elementar da historia natural dos animaes (Basic framework of natural history of the animals ) CUVIER, Baron Georges.- Quadro elementar da historia natural dos animaes / traduzido em portuguez por Antonio d'Almeida.- Londres: Impresso por H. Bryer, 1815.- 2 vols.: il.; 21 cm.- E. Remarkable copy for its romantic bindings (slightly post publishing date), slightly fatigued, entire red wide grain Morocco with fine gold work on the plans and spines; green silk moirée guards (doublures) with gold decoration on wheels to the boards and gilt leaf cutting. At the center of all the plans, a guided ducal coronet surrounded by multiple dry and golden borders. Copy with some acidity. Probably Parisian bindings with signs of bookworm working mainly on the inner side of the joints. Inocêncio, I, p. 83