TEMMINCK (COENRAAD JACOB) AND MEIFFREN LAUGIER DE CHARTROUSE


Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour sevir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon 5 vol., half-titles, 600 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Nicolas Huet and J.G. Prêtre, contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt in six compartments within raised bands, rubbed, short tear at upper edge of one spine [Anker 503; Fine Bird Books, p.111; Nissen IVB 932; Wood, p.593; Zimmer, pp.626- 628], folio (548 x 350mm.), Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1838
|THE LARGE AND MOST IMPRESSIVE FOLIO FORMAT OF TEMMINCK'S MONUMENTAL WORK, which also appeared as a large quarto and was intended as a continuation of Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (1770-1786). The plates depict approximately 800 birds, with many of the specimens depicted from the collection of Laugier de Chartrouse. Collations for this work vary because of its complex and irregular publishing history (see Zimmer).Provenance: De Goederen, Amsterdam, 2 August 1955.