Paris, Société Zoologique de France, 1896-1897. Three papers in two. 212 pp. [104; 95; 13 (numbered 395-498; 139-234; 62-74)], 14 [8; 5, 1] phototype plates. Near uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, gilt title and gilt ornamental head and foot pieces. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

These three papers describe the material taken by deep-water expeditions in the Mediterranean, and near the Azores. The latter region was little explored during that time and consequently many new species were described and figured. All were published in the society's Mémoires (the Scalidae paper written by Dautzenberg and the wentletrap specialist De Boury), together with several other papers, some of which of malacological interest too. For instance: Observations sur divers céphalopodes. Deuxième note.Octopus punctatus Gabb,by L. Joubin. With a plate. Provenance: both volumes with on the front pastedown a small, printed label, Ex libris A. Preudhomme de Borre. Charles Francois Paul Alfred Preudhomme de Borre (1833-1905) was a Belgian entomologist, malacologist and herpetologist. Contents fine. A very good set of these rare publications. Cat. BM(NH) p. 1336 (not detailed). Not in Nissen.