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DESMURS (Marc Athanase Parfait Oeillet): ICONOGRAPHIE ORNITHOLOGIQUE, nouveau recueil général de planches peintes d'oiseaux pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon ... et aux planches coloriées de MM. Temminck et Laugier de Chartrouse, Paris, Friedrich Klincksieck, [1845-] 1849
FIRST EDITION, large 4to (355 x 265mm.), 72 hand-coloured lithographed plates after A. Prevost and P.L. Oudart by Becquet (a few text leaves slightly spotted, plates clean), contemporary half morocco gilt, t.e.g.
Very fine plates. As the title indicates the work was intended to form a supplement to Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux 1770-1786 and the Nouveau recueil de planches colori©es, 1820-1838 of Temminck and Laugier de Chartrouse. Nissen IVB 239; Zimmer p. 168; Books p. 70 (*)
FIRST EDITION, large 4to (355 x 265mm.), 72 hand-coloured lithographed plates after A. Prevost and P.L. Oudart by Becquet (a few text leaves slightly spotted, plates clean), contemporary half morocco gilt, t.e.g.
Very fine plates. As the title indicates the work was intended to form a supplement to Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux 1770-1786 and the Nouveau recueil de planches colori©es, 1820-1838 of Temminck and Laugier de Chartrouse. Nissen IVB 239; Zimmer p. 168; Books p. 70 (*)