DESMAREST, Anselme-Gaëtan (1784-1838). Histoire naturelle des tangares, des manakins et des todiers . Paris: L.-É. Herhan for Garnery and Delachaussée, 1805-[1807]. 2° (529 x 343mm). Half-title, dedication, 'Avis servant de table'. 72 etched and engraved plates in hand-coloured and plain states by Gremilliet after Pauline de Courcelles, printed by Rousset, both states printed in black with complete captions below. (Scattered spotting on early and final leaves and plates, light offsetting affecting some plates.) Contemporary green morocco by J. Clarke covers gilt with wide borders formed from foliate and floral rolls within fillets, gilt board edges and turn-ins, the spine gilt in compartments, lettered in one and at the foot, the other compartments elaborately decorated with foliate tools, gilt edges (spine lightly faded). FIRST EDITION. LARGE-PAPER COPY WITH COLOURED AND PLAIN STATES OF THE 'BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED PLATES' (Anker). Desmarest's work has the distinction of being the first ornithological text illustrated by Madame Knip (1781-1851). Born Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Rifer de Courcelles, she married the Dutch flower painter Joseph August Knip in 1808, and was -- as the title states -- a pupil of Jacques Barraband. Recognised in her lifetime as one of the leading ornithological artists of the 19th century, her reputation has endured on the basis of her illustrations both for Demarest's work and for Knip, Temminck and Prévost's Les Pigeons (see lot 168). The present work was issued in 12 livraisons , in a number of variant states: with the plates printed in black or in colours; with or without full details of the artist, engraver and printer; with the plates uncoloured. In addition, Ronsil and Zimmer, citing Engelmann's Bibliotheca zoologica (Leipzig: 1861), note copies issued in two volumes with a portrait of the author, and with both plain and coloured states of the plates. Anker 116; BM(NH) I, p.445; Brunet II, 631; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.90; Nissen IVB 238; Ronsil 840; Wood p.316; Zimmer p.167.
DESMAREST, Anselme-Gaëtan (1784-1838). Histoire naturelle des tangares, des manakins et des todiers . Paris: L.-É. Herhan for Garnery and Delachaussée, 1805-[1807]. 2° (529 x 343mm). Half-title, dedication, 'Avis servant de table'. 72 etched and engraved plates in hand-coloured and plain states by Gremilliet after Pauline de Courcelles, printed by Rousset, both states printed in black with complete captions below. (Scattered spotting on early and final leaves and plates, light offsetting affecting some plates.) Contemporary green morocco by J. Clarke covers gilt with wide borders formed from foliate and floral rolls within fillets, gilt board edges and turn-ins, the spine gilt in compartments, lettered in one and at the foot, the other compartments elaborately decorated with foliate tools, gilt edges (spine lightly faded). FIRST EDITION. LARGE-PAPER COPY WITH COLOURED AND PLAIN STATES OF THE 'BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED PLATES' (Anker). Desmarest's work has the distinction of being the first ornithological text illustrated by Madame Knip (1781-1851). Born Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Rifer de Courcelles, she married the Dutch flower painter Joseph August Knip in 1808, and was -- as the title states -- a pupil of Jacques Barraband. Recognised in her lifetime as one of the leading ornithological artists of the 19th century, her reputation has endured on the basis of her illustrations both for Demarest's work and for Knip, Temminck and Prévost's Les Pigeons (see lot 168). The present work was issued in 12 livraisons , in a number of variant states: with the plates printed in black or in colours; with or without full details of the artist, engraver and printer; with the plates uncoloured. In addition, Ronsil and Zimmer, citing Engelmann's Bibliotheca zoologica (Leipzig: 1861), note copies issued in two volumes with a portrait of the author, and with both plain and coloured states of the plates. Anker 116; BM(NH) I, p.445; Brunet II, 631; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.90; Nissen IVB 238; Ronsil 840; Wood p.316; Zimmer p.167.
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