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LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824). Histoire naturelle des perroquets. Sydney: The Lord McAlpine of West Green and Brian Chester-Imprimé, 1989.
2 volumes, broadsheets (555 x 405mm). Text in French and English. Coloured frontispiece and 157 colour-printed plates, each numbered in pencil. Laid in is a facsimile of a letter addressed to Levaillant. Loose, as issued, in original green cloth boxes with colour-printed paper lettering-pieces applied to upper panels.
NO. 65 OF 200 SETS; A FINELY-PRODUCED FACSIMILE OF THE DEDICATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION (published in 1801-1805), which includes an additional frontispiece and 14 plates of parrots, after original watercolours which were bound into the dedication copy presented to comte Lacépède. (2)
2 volumes, broadsheets (555 x 405mm). Text in French and English. Coloured frontispiece and 157 colour-printed plates, each numbered in pencil. Laid in is a facsimile of a letter addressed to Levaillant. Loose, as issued, in original green cloth boxes with colour-printed paper lettering-pieces applied to upper panels.
NO. 65 OF 200 SETS; A FINELY-PRODUCED FACSIMILE OF THE DEDICATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION (published in 1801-1805), which includes an additional frontispiece and 14 plates of parrots, after original watercolours which were bound into the dedication copy presented to comte Lacépède. (2)
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