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SAVIGNY, Jules-César. Histoire Naturelle et Mythologique de l' Ibis, Paris: Allais, 1805. 8° (204 x 125mm). 6 engraved plates by Bouquet after H. J. Redouté and Jacques Barraband, 2 folding. (Some light staining and spotting.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt, spine gilt with black morocco lettering-piece (joints split, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Alan Francis Brooke (armorial bookplate); cancelled Radcliffe library stamp. With 7 other books of related interest including J. C. Hervieux de Chanteloupe's A New Treatise of Canary-Birds (London, 1718), Julius de Mosenthal's Ostriches and Ostrich Farming (London, 1877), John James Audubon's Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America (Edinburgh, 1831) and M. J. Nicoll's Ornithological Journal of a Voyage Round the World ([London, 1904], containing numerous autograph letters and newspaper cuttings relating to the voyage including the sighting of a sea-serpent). (8)