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BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent (1803-1857). Iconographie des Pigeons non figurs par Mme. Knip ... dans les deux volumes de MM. Temminck et Florent Prvost. Paris: P. Bertrand [printed by L. Martinet], 1857-[58].
2 (536 x 350mm). Half-title, 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after P. L. Oudart, F. Willy and E. Blanchard, printed by Lemercier. (Light browning and occasional spotting to plates, preliminary leaves spotted, descriptive text to first plate restored at lower margin.) Modern green half morocco, gilt spine compartments, t.e.g.
While intended to form a supplement to Madame Knip's Les Pigeons with text by Temminck and Prvost (Paris, 1808-11), Bonaparte's Iconographie des Pigeons ranks as an independent work, admired by Wood for its hand-coloured portraits of exotic pigeons from climatic regions as far apart as Australia and the Himalayas. As Prince Bonaparte's publisher points out, the earlier work figured 140 species. Bonaparte had intended to add 164 others. But his untimely death, when only 20 lithographs had been published and 35 more were ready for publication, necessarily limited the undertaking to 12 parts rather than 30. The work was edited and completed by A. Moquin-Tandon. Fine Bird Books p. 60; Nissen IVB 117; Ronsil p. 58; Wood p. 248; Zimmer p. 78.
2 (536 x 350mm). Half-title, 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after P. L. Oudart, F. Willy and E. Blanchard, printed by Lemercier. (Light browning and occasional spotting to plates, preliminary leaves spotted, descriptive text to first plate restored at lower margin.) Modern green half morocco, gilt spine compartments, t.e.g.
While intended to form a supplement to Madame Knip's Les Pigeons with text by Temminck and Prvost (Paris, 1808-11), Bonaparte's Iconographie des Pigeons ranks as an independent work, admired by Wood for its hand-coloured portraits of exotic pigeons from climatic regions as far apart as Australia and the Himalayas. As Prince Bonaparte's publisher points out, the earlier work figured 140 species. Bonaparte had intended to add 164 others. But his untimely death, when only 20 lithographs had been published and 35 more were ready for publication, necessarily limited the undertaking to 12 parts rather than 30. The work was edited and completed by A. Moquin-Tandon. Fine Bird Books p. 60; Nissen IVB 117; Ronsil p. 58; Wood p. 248; Zimmer p. 78.