Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, Prince Souverain de Monaco publiés sous sa direction avec le concours de M. Jules Richard Docteur ès-sciences, chargé des travaux zoologiques à bord. XVII. Céphalopodes provenant des campagnes de la Princesse-Alice (1891-1897).

1900 135 p., 15 chromolithographed or heliographic, tissue-guarded plates (many plates double-paged), small folio (28 x 36 cm), paperbound (original printed paper and transparent covers). As very often the thin transparent covers with some tears. Uncut. A few heliographic plates with some marginal foxing, but the chromolithographed plates clean.A magnificent work on octopus and squid by the French cephalopod specialist Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (1861-1935) with some spectacular illustrations. This includes the genus Grimalditeuthis, named for the Monacan royal family, and new species. The chromolithographed plates are quite beautiful.