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BRISSON, Mathurin Jacques. Ornithologie, Paris, chez, Cl. Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1760, 8 vols., 4°, FIRST EDITION, 6 engraved frontispieces and 263 folding engraved plates by F.N. Martinet including 2 bis plates, printed titles and parallel text in Latin and French (plates in vol. I affected by damp at one corner, damp also affecting some plates in vols. III, V and VI, text similarly affected in the same vols.), contemporary half calf (rubbed, joints cracked). [Nissen IVB 145; Zimmer I, 94]; and one other book. (9)
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BRISSON, Mathurin Jacques. Ornithologie, Paris, chez, Cl. Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1760, 8 vols., 4°, FIRST EDITION, 6 engraved frontispieces and 263 folding engraved plates by F.N. Martinet including 2 bis plates, printed titles and parallel text in Latin and French (plates in vol. I affected by damp at one corner, damp also affecting some plates in vols. III, V and VI, text similarly affected in the same vols.), contemporary half calf (rubbed, joints cracked). [Nissen IVB 145; Zimmer I, 94]; and one other book. (9)