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LEMBEYE, Juan. Aves de la Isla de Cuba. Havana: Imprenta del Tiempo, 1850.
8° (256 x 166mm). Title, dedication, index, list of subscribers, 20 LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, all but one hand-coloured, by Lauro Ferrod after Audubon, printed by L. Marquier. (Plate 1 browned, neat repair to outer margin of plate 15, occasional marginal finger-soiling.) Later morocco-backed marbled boards (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK. Many of the descriptions are by Juan Gundlach. Zimmer and Nissen require only 18 of the plates to be hand-coloured. Zimmer (p. 384) notes that the book "is considered a great rarity": Nissen IVB 543 cites only a 1902 facsimile, and the work is not listed by Anker. Fine Bird Books p. 89 ("rare").
8° (256 x 166mm). Title, dedication, index, list of subscribers, 20 LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, all but one hand-coloured, by Lauro Ferrod after Audubon, printed by L. Marquier. (Plate 1 browned, neat repair to outer margin of plate 15, occasional marginal finger-soiling.) Later morocco-backed marbled boards (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK. Many of the descriptions are by Juan Gundlach. Zimmer and Nissen require only 18 of the plates to be hand-coloured. Zimmer (p. 384) notes that the book "is considered a great rarity": Nissen IVB 543 cites only a 1902 facsimile, and the work is not listed by Anker. Fine Bird Books p. 89 ("rare").