Sébastien Gérardin de Mirecourt (1751-1816) Tableau élémentaire d'ornithologie, ou histoire naturelle des oiseaux que l'on rencontre communément en France: suivi d'un traité sur la manière de conserver leurs dépouilles pour en former des collections. Paris: chez Tourneisen fils, 1806. 3 volumes (text: 2 vols., 8° [222 x138mm]; plates: 1 vol., 4° [290 x 210mm]). Text: half-titles, errata leaves. (Some light spotting.) Plates: half-title. 4 folding letterpress tables, 41 engraved plates, hand-coloured by the author, extra-illustrated with an original pen and watercolour drawing by the author, 2pp. of manuscript explanation of the drawing and an original mounted pen and wash portrait of the author by S. Gauthier bound as a frontispiece. Uniformly bound in contemporary French red morocco-backed orange paper-covered boards, the covers with decorative border of a single fillet enclosing a neo-classical roll, the flat spines in gilt compartments, lettered or numbered in the second and fourth, red morocco presentation lable, with decorative border, on front pastedown of plate volume, lettered "A. Melle. Gerardin de la part de son frère en témoignage de l'amitie" (light scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Madamoiselle Gérardin de Mirecourt (sister of the author, presentation label); H. Gallice (bookplate); Marcel Jeanson (bookplate, sale: Sotheby's Monaco 16 June 1988 lot 30). THE JEANSON COPY: A UNIQUE EXAMPLE PREPARED BY THE AUTHOR FOR PRESENTATION TO HIS SISTER. A finely bound copy, printed on papier vélin , with the plates coloured by the author. The plates include a representative view of a bird skeleton, 33 plates of birds (each plate generally includes four or more species), 6 plates on the taxidermy of birds or the keeping of captive birds. The final plate is of entomological interest (as called-for). Uniquely, this copy also includes a pen and wash portrait of the author cut to the edge of the image area and mounted as a frontispiece and an original watercolour (headed Planche additionnelle à la XXXVII ci-après , and signed Gérardin del: at foot) of various operations to be carried out in the preparation of a stuffed mounted specimen, with 2pp. (numbered 115.bis and 116.bis ) of the author's autograph explantory text. Gérardin, a French naturalist, was born at Mirecourt on 9 March 1751. He was professor of Natural History at the central school for the Vosges département, and later attached to the Natural History Museum in Paris. The present set is his most important published work, although he did publish a number of botanical works including the Tableau élémentaire de botanique (Paris: 1803). He died in Paris on 17 July 1816. BM (NH) II,p.661; Nissen IVB 346; Ronsil 1182.
Sébastien Gérardin de Mirecourt (1751-1816) Tableau élémentaire d'ornithologie, ou histoire naturelle des oiseaux que l'on rencontre communément en France: suivi d'un traité sur la manière de conserver leurs dépouilles pour en former des collections. Paris: chez Tourneisen fils, 1806. 3 volumes (text: 2 vols., 8° [222 x138mm]; plates: 1 vol., 4° [290 x 210mm]). Text: half-titles, errata leaves. (Some light spotting.) Plates: half-title. 4 folding letterpress tables, 41 engraved plates, hand-coloured by the author, extra-illustrated with an original pen and watercolour drawing by the author, 2pp. of manuscript explanation of the drawing and an original mounted pen and wash portrait of the author by S. Gauthier bound as a frontispiece. Uniformly bound in contemporary French red morocco-backed orange paper-covered boards, the covers with decorative border of a single fillet enclosing a neo-classical roll, the flat spines in gilt compartments, lettered or numbered in the second and fourth, red morocco presentation lable, with decorative border, on front pastedown of plate volume, lettered "A. Melle. Gerardin de la part de son frère en témoignage de l'amitie" (light scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Madamoiselle Gérardin de Mirecourt (sister of the author, presentation label); H. Gallice (bookplate); Marcel Jeanson (bookplate, sale: Sotheby's Monaco 16 June 1988 lot 30). THE JEANSON COPY: A UNIQUE EXAMPLE PREPARED BY THE AUTHOR FOR PRESENTATION TO HIS SISTER. A finely bound copy, printed on papier vélin , with the plates coloured by the author. The plates include a representative view of a bird skeleton, 33 plates of birds (each plate generally includes four or more species), 6 plates on the taxidermy of birds or the keeping of captive birds. The final plate is of entomological interest (as called-for). Uniquely, this copy also includes a pen and wash portrait of the author cut to the edge of the image area and mounted as a frontispiece and an original watercolour (headed Planche additionnelle à la XXXVII ci-après , and signed Gérardin del: at foot) of various operations to be carried out in the preparation of a stuffed mounted specimen, with 2pp. (numbered 115.bis and 116.bis ) of the author's autograph explantory text. Gérardin, a French naturalist, was born at Mirecourt on 9 March 1751. He was professor of Natural History at the central school for the Vosges département, and later attached to the Natural History Museum in Paris. The present set is his most important published work, although he did publish a number of botanical works including the Tableau élémentaire de botanique (Paris: 1803). He died in Paris on 17 July 1816. BM (NH) II,p.661; Nissen IVB 346; Ronsil 1182.
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