Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Exotiques.

LEMAIRE, C.L. - PREVOST, Florent - PAUQUET, Hippolyte Louis Em. (born 1797) - PAUQUET, Polydore (ca 1800 - 1860).

Verlag: Paris: F. Savy., [1864]

Beschreibung

Large 8vo., (9 4/8 x 6 inches). Half-title with publisher's adverts on verso, letterpress title-page. Additional hand-coloured engraved title-page, 80 fine hand-coloured engraved plates (one or two loose), and two uncoloured at end (these last with pale marginal waterstain). Original green cloth, gilt (worn with loss and upper hinge split near the head of the spine). Provenance: near contemporary ownership inscription on the half-title of Geo. Shearwood dated 1869; with later pencilled inscription dated 1924 beneath. First published in 1836. Magnificent plates of exotic hummingbirds, birds of paradise, parrots (including some Australian cockatoos), toucans, a lyre bird, Cardinal and Blue-jay. The freres Pauquet, were reknowned 19th-century illustrators of a number of very popular works including "Modes et Costumes Historiques Dessinés et Gravés par Pauquet Frères d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres de Chaque Epoque" (ca 1865) and H. Lucas's "Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères Exotiques" (1845). Nissen IVB 541, Zimmer II, 496. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 72nhr53

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Exotiques.

Verlag: Paris: F. Savy., [1864]

Einband: Hardcover