LEVAILLANT (FRANÇOIS)


Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amerique et des Indes, vol. 1 (all published), half-title, 49 engraved plates printed in colours by Langlois and hand-finished, 3 additional hand-coloured lithographed plates ("Théorie des Ressemblances"), tissue guards (one missing), plates 48 and 49 loose (the last shaved touching caption), browning and some spotting to title, some spotting to plates, contemporary quarter red morocco, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, upper hinge slightly weakened [Anker 300; Fine Bird Books, p.90; Nissen IVB 557; Sabin 40731], large 4to (328 x 247mm.), Paris, J.E. Gabriel Dufour, 1801
|This work was intended as a companion to Levaillant's Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique, but only one volume was completed, consisting of monographs of the Bucerotidae and the Cotingidae.Provenance: De Goederen, Amsterdam, 15 October 1955.