F. A. Pouchets - Atlas Histoire Naturelle du Règne Animal - 1841
N.º 83710093
Achille Comte - Keepsake d'Histoire Naturelle, Description des Oiseaux - 1839
N.º 83710093
Achille Comte - Keepsake d'Histoire Naturelle, Description des Oiseaux - 1839
Large octavo: 312 pages; 38 plates, with tissue guards, of hand-coloured illustrations of birds in groupings; colour frontispiece and illuminated, second half-title page.
Some foxing on the text pages but the plates are lovely and bright and generally clean.
Protected with tissue guards.
In contemporary black-gilt publisher's boards, with small ex-lib sticker and a pen-written dedication.
Vicare IV, 669. First edition and first printing of the frontispiece by Victor Adam, another frontispiece engraved by Rouget after Pauquet, a portrait of Buffon and 38 plates engraved by Beaupré, Colin, Thibault, Gelée , Giroux, Guyard, Migneret, etc. Each of the plates presents two species of birds in their natural environment. All the plates have been carefully colored with watercolor. Very nice copy.
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