VIEILLOT, Louis Jean Pierre (1748-1831) and Paul Louis OUDART (b. 1796). La Galerie des Oiseaux, dédiée à son altesse royale Madame, Duchesse de Berri . Paris: Constant-Chantpie, [1820-] 1825 [-1826]. 5 parts in 2 volumes, 4° (250 x 200mm). 324 hand-coloured lithographic plates, including 2 double-page and one folding, by C. Motte and G. Engelmann after Oudart, and 33 plain anatomical plates. (Without half-titles, light spotting throughout, some lightly browning, a few plates slightly shaved, not affecting image.) Contemporary maroon morocco, gilt, the covers panelled with scrolling foliate decoration (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION OF VIEILLOT'S 'EXCESSIVELY RARE' AND 'FINE ORNITHOLOGIC ATLAS' (Wood), with early hand-coloured lithographs of birds by Oudart, a pupil of van Spaendonck and 'one of the outstanding French illustrators and bird painters' (Jackson). Originally published in livraisons , the work was 'planned to give coloured figures of all the birds in the galleries of the Paris Museum... The enormity of this project caused its abandonment and the substitution of a more modest programme, with the writing of the text assigned to Viellot' (Zimmer). Oudart was one of the first French artists to have his paintings reproduced lithographically and the attractive plates include many exotic species. The bibliographers do not agree on the required number of plates. Some copies are recorded with 325, rather than 234 plates. Cf. Nissen IVB 960 (calling for 301 coloured plates and 33 plain); Ronsil 3031; Wood, p. 613; Zimmer p.655. (2)
VIEILLOT, Louis Jean Pierre (1748-1831) and Paul Louis OUDART (b. 1796). La Galerie des Oiseaux, dédiée à son altesse royale Madame, Duchesse de Berri . Paris: Constant-Chantpie, [1820-] 1825 [-1826]. 5 parts in 2 volumes, 4° (250 x 200mm). 324 hand-coloured lithographic plates, including 2 double-page and one folding, by C. Motte and G. Engelmann after Oudart, and 33 plain anatomical plates. (Without half-titles, light spotting throughout, some lightly browning, a few plates slightly shaved, not affecting image.) Contemporary maroon morocco, gilt, the covers panelled with scrolling foliate decoration (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION OF VIEILLOT'S 'EXCESSIVELY RARE' AND 'FINE ORNITHOLOGIC ATLAS' (Wood), with early hand-coloured lithographs of birds by Oudart, a pupil of van Spaendonck and 'one of the outstanding French illustrators and bird painters' (Jackson). Originally published in livraisons , the work was 'planned to give coloured figures of all the birds in the galleries of the Paris Museum... The enormity of this project caused its abandonment and the substitution of a more modest programme, with the writing of the text assigned to Viellot' (Zimmer). Oudart was one of the first French artists to have his paintings reproduced lithographically and the attractive plates include many exotic species. The bibliographers do not agree on the required number of plates. Some copies are recorded with 325, rather than 234 plates. Cf. Nissen IVB 960 (calling for 301 coloured plates and 33 plain); Ronsil 3031; Wood, p. 613; Zimmer p.655. (2)
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