AUDEBERT, Jean-Baptiste/ VIEILLOT, Louis-Pierre. Golden birds or birds with metallic reflections. Natural and general history of hummingbirds, hummingbirds, jacamars and promerops. Paris, Desray, 1802. Black and white. One volume in-folio. Volume one only. False title, title, X-128 pp, 85 plates in black. Unbound, partly unclipped, missing fx-title in upper right corner, hole under title and at bottom of table with loss of text (stamps?), hole p. 99 in margin. Scattered foxing.
First volume only in folio format of this famous ornithological work. Illustrated with 85 plates in black drawn by Audebert, engraved on copper by Louis Bouquet, the work includes a total of 190 plates. - Nissen IVB, 4.
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