LESSON, Ren Primevre (1794-1849). Les trochilides ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches, suivie d'un index gnral . Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1832-1833]. 8 (237 x 154mm). Half-title, 66 hand-finished, colour-printed engraved plates by Oudet after A. G. Bvalet and J.-G. Prtre, printed by Rmond, finished by Oudet, with half title. (Spotting to a few plates, and to text.) Contemporary hard-grained red half morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Provenance : A. de Farcy (bookplate); J. F. Symons-Jeune (bookplate). This comparatively small but supremely elegant book, issued in 14 parts with plates figuring both birds and nests, closed the author's study of the genus. In this copy, the 'Index Gnral' is bound in at the front. Anker 294; Nissen IVB 459; Ronsil 1774; Wood p. 433 'a classic work'; Zimmer p. 388. (8)
LESSON, Ren Primevre (1794-1849). Les trochilides ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches, suivie d'un index gnral . Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1832-1833]. 8 (237 x 154mm). Half-title, 66 hand-finished, colour-printed engraved plates by Oudet after A. G. Bvalet and J.-G. Prtre, printed by Rmond, finished by Oudet, with half title. (Spotting to a few plates, and to text.) Contemporary hard-grained red half morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Provenance : A. de Farcy (bookplate); J. F. Symons-Jeune (bookplate). This comparatively small but supremely elegant book, issued in 14 parts with plates figuring both birds and nests, closed the author's study of the genus. In this copy, the 'Index Gnral' is bound in at the front. Anker 294; Nissen IVB 459; Ronsil 1774; Wood p. 433 'a classic work'; Zimmer p. 388. (8)
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