Jean-Baptiste Audebert (1759-1800) and Louis-Jean-Pierre Vieillot (1748-1831) Oiseaux Dorés ou à reflets métalliques. I. Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops. II. Des grimpéreaux et des oiseaux de paradis. Paris: Crapelet for Desray, [1800-]1802. 2 volumes, large 4° (330 x 252mm). 2 pp. subscriber's list, half-titles and section titles. 190 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES, PRINTED IN COLOURS by and after Audebert printed by Langlois, six double-page, one folding, many heightened with gold. (Some light spotting to plates, more noticeable to about 40 plates, small tear to folding plate.) Red straight-grained morocco gilt by C. Smith the covers with elaborate panelled border of fillets and roll-tools in gilt and blind, with elaborate corner-pieces, spines in five compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat overall decoration in gilt of massed foliage tools and various small tools, wide gilt turn-ins tooled in gilt with scrolling vines, blue endpapers, gilt endpapers, gilt edges, binders label in vol.I 'Bound by C. Smith 13, Church Street, Soho' (some light surface damage, spines scuffed and bumped at head and foot). Provenance : Franchetti (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF 'ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF ITS ERA' ( Fine Bird Books in a fine London binding. The plates have been described as 'little less than hand illuminated engravings'. As Anker points out the 'colours of the birds and their handsome appearance have evidently been the cause of their selection for inclusion in the book. The plates with the bird portraits are in beautiful colours; in this respect they are among the best colour prints found in ornithology'. The work was issued in 32 parts over 26 months and is divided into 10 sections or sub-sections, the general title being taken from the half-titles. The plates were etched by Audebert from his own designs and those of 'les plus belles peintres de Paris et de Londres'. Louis Bouquet assisted with the colouring, and Langlois with the printing in oil-colours. The whole process used in the printing of the plates was invented by Audebert. The text is largely by Vieillot who continued the work using Audebert's notes after the latter's death in 1800. The binding, by C. Smith was carried out before 1820. Anker 14; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.73; Mengel 93; Nissen IVB 47; Zimmer 17. (2)
Jean-Baptiste Audebert (1759-1800) and Louis-Jean-Pierre Vieillot (1748-1831) Oiseaux Dorés ou à reflets métalliques. I. Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops. II. Des grimpéreaux et des oiseaux de paradis. Paris: Crapelet for Desray, [1800-]1802. 2 volumes, large 4° (330 x 252mm). 2 pp. subscriber's list, half-titles and section titles. 190 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES, PRINTED IN COLOURS by and after Audebert printed by Langlois, six double-page, one folding, many heightened with gold. (Some light spotting to plates, more noticeable to about 40 plates, small tear to folding plate.) Red straight-grained morocco gilt by C. Smith the covers with elaborate panelled border of fillets and roll-tools in gilt and blind, with elaborate corner-pieces, spines in five compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat overall decoration in gilt of massed foliage tools and various small tools, wide gilt turn-ins tooled in gilt with scrolling vines, blue endpapers, gilt endpapers, gilt edges, binders label in vol.I 'Bound by C. Smith 13, Church Street, Soho' (some light surface damage, spines scuffed and bumped at head and foot). Provenance : Franchetti (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF 'ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF ITS ERA' ( Fine Bird Books in a fine London binding. The plates have been described as 'little less than hand illuminated engravings'. As Anker points out the 'colours of the birds and their handsome appearance have evidently been the cause of their selection for inclusion in the book. The plates with the bird portraits are in beautiful colours; in this respect they are among the best colour prints found in ornithology'. The work was issued in 32 parts over 26 months and is divided into 10 sections or sub-sections, the general title being taken from the half-titles. The plates were etched by Audebert from his own designs and those of 'les plus belles peintres de Paris et de Londres'. Louis Bouquet assisted with the colouring, and Langlois with the printing in oil-colours. The whole process used in the printing of the plates was invented by Audebert. The text is largely by Vieillot who continued the work using Audebert's notes after the latter's death in 1800. The binding, by C. Smith was carried out before 1820. Anker 14; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.73; Mengel 93; Nissen IVB 47; Zimmer 17. (2)
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