Natural history of the Tangaras, Manakins and Todiers. Paris, Garnery, Delachaussée, year XII, 1805.
In-folio of (3) ff, 8 pp., 49 p.; 12 pp., 17 p.; 4 pp., 5 p.; 2 pp., 1 p., (1) f., each plate accompanied by sheets of descriptive text, binding of the period in red half-chagrin with corners (Fazakerkey Binder,
Liverpool).
First edition.
72 plates engraved in intaglio by Gremilliet after the drawings of
Pauline de Courcelles (Madame
Knip), printed in colours, and finished by hand.
One of the most beautiful bird books published in France at the beginning of the 19th century.
Very good copy from the Athenaeum Library in
Liverpool, with gilded and numbered spine and stamps on the plates.
Anker, 116; Fine Bird Books, 70; Nissen, IVB, 238; Zimmer, vol. I, p. 167.
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