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Décades zoologiques de la mission scientifique permanente d'Exploration en Indo-Chine. Oiseaux, Parts 1-9 in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO BETWEEN 200 AND 250 COPIES, variously numbered between 129 and 137, 5 parts signed by the author on colophon, 97 hand-coloured plates on rice paper mounted on 90 leaves, 2 uncoloured plates, 2 silver gelatin photograph plates, modern morocco, gilt lettered on upper cover and spine, original orange printed upper wrapper bound in [Nissen ZBI 4603; Ronsil 359; Wood 314], 4to (275 x 185mm.), Hanoi, [F.H. Schneider], 1905-1906
|RARE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF VIETNAM, the result of a French zoological mission to Indo-China. Limited to between 200 (parts 1-6) and 250 copies (7-9) the work is illustrated with fine hand-coloured plates after Dang-ngoc-Quan. A further two parts, relating to the non-ornithological material, appeared in 1908.Provenance: Asher, Amsterdam, 21 April 1958.