Birds.- Lesson (René-Primevère) Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches [and] Les trochilides ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches [and] Histoire naturelle des colibris, 3 vol., half-titles, 218 engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, spotted, uniformly bound in contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco by Germain-Simier (signed at the foot of the spine of first vol.), spines in compartments and richly gilt, spines a little faded, rubbed at extremities,[ Anker 291; Nissen IVB 547; Sitwell Fine Bird Books, p.117; Wood p.433; Zimmer II, 386], large 8vo, Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [c.1829-1833]. ⁂ First editions of the most comprehensive works on hummingbirds before Gould. Lesson served as a naturalist during to two major French voyages in the 1820s, when he studied hummingbirds in their native surroundings. Wood describes the work as 'a fundamental classic'.
Birds.- Lesson (René-Primevère) Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches [and] Les trochilides ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches [and] Histoire naturelle des colibris, 3 vol., half-titles, 218 engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, spotted, uniformly bound in contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco by Germain-Simier (signed at the foot of the spine of first vol.), spines in compartments and richly gilt, spines a little faded, rubbed at extremities,[ Anker 291; Nissen IVB 547; Sitwell Fine Bird Books, p.117; Wood p.433; Zimmer II, 386], large 8vo, Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [c.1829-1833]. ⁂ First editions of the most comprehensive works on hummingbirds before Gould. Lesson served as a naturalist during to two major French voyages in the 1820s, when he studied hummingbirds in their native surroundings. Wood describes the work as 'a fundamental classic'.
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