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Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Europe... Première partie. Passereaux [all published], half-title, 80 hand-coloured engraved plates, one hand-coloured vignette [Nissen IVB 541], Paris, L. De Bure, [1837]; idem, later edition, 80 hand-coloured engraved plates, 2 uncoloured plates, Paris, L. De Bure, 1845--MOUTON-FONTENILLE (M.J.P.) Traité élémentaire d'ornithologie, 2 vol., 5 folding engraved plates, light dampstaining to opening leaves of volume 1, Lyon, Yvernault & Cabin, 1811--BOULART (RAOUL) Ornithologie du salon... des oiseaux de volière européens et exotiques, 40 chromolithographed plates, publisher's wrappers, rebacked, small losses to covers [Nissen IVB 125], Paris, J.Rothschild, 1878--MAOUT (EMMANUEL LE) Histoire naturelle des oiseaux servant la classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 35 plates (15 hand-coloured), g.e., short tear to spine [Nissen IVB 542], Paris, L. Curmer, 1853--DUBOIS (ALPHONSE) Synopsis avium. Nouveau manuel d'ornithologie, 2 vol., 16 chromolithographed plates, a few gatherings working loose [Wood, p.325, "a valuable work"], Brussels, H. Lamertin, 1902-1904--BREHM (A.E.) Merveilles de la nature... les oiseaux, 2 vol., 40 wood-engraved plates, some browning, Paris, Bailliere, [n.d.]--PERCHERON (GASTON) Le perroquet, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates [Nissen IVB 715], Paris, Asselin, 1878--D'AUBUSSON (LOUIS MAGAUD) Les oiseaux de la France... Première monographie corvidés [all published], 21 lithographed plates (19 hand-coloured) by and after Jules Terrier, light dampstaining to opening leaves, light spotting [Nissen IVB 46], Paris, A. Quantin, 1883--TROUESSART (E.) Les oiseaux utiles, 44 mounted colour plates by Leo-Paul Robert, Paris, J.B. Bailliere, [1891], last 2 mentioned publisher's cloth, short tears to joints, others quarter morocco, some rubbing, 8vo and 4to; and 14 others, ornithology in French, including a volume by R.P. Lesson, with ownership inscription and extensive annotations by French ornithologist Jules Pierre Verreaux (27)