Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers
first edition , half-title, 72 engraved plates by Gremilliet after Madame Knip (Pauline Decourcelles), all printed in colour and finished by hand, one or two plates foxed, light foxing to text, ex-Athenaeum Library of Liverpool copy with small unobtrusive stamp to title and plates (within plate-mark but not affecting images), later half red morocco, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, a little rubbed, accession number in gilt at head of spine and ‘Athenaeum’ at foot, [Nissen 238; Anker 116; Fine Bird Books p.70], folio, Paris, 1805 [-07].
Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers
first edition , half-title, 72 engraved plates by Gremilliet after Madame Knip (Pauline Decourcelles), all printed in colour and finished by hand, one or two plates foxed, light foxing to text, ex-Athenaeum Library of Liverpool copy with small unobtrusive stamp to title and plates (within plate-mark but not affecting images), later half red morocco, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, a little rubbed, accession number in gilt at head of spine and ‘Athenaeum’ at foot, [Nissen 238; Anker 116; Fine Bird Books p.70], folio, Paris, 1805 [-07].
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