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Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858) and Baron Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse
Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complèment aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4° de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1770. Paris, Strassburg and Amsterdam: by A. Bellin for F.G. Levraut and Legras Imbert, [1820]-1838-[1839]. 5 volumes, 4° (357 x 267mm). Letterpress titles, half-titles, 'Prospectus', 'Table Méthodique' and 'Post-scriptum'. Text leaves and plates bound in systematic order, 594 (of 600) hand-coloured engraved plates, 4 double-page, after Nicholas Huet fils and Jean Gabriel Prêtre. (Light browning and offsetting, clean tears slightly 2 leaves of text.) Contemporary roan-backed boards, the spines titled in gilt (extremities a little rubbed and scuffed, cracking affecting some hinges). Provenance: J.G. van Marle (bookplates).
'UN DES LIVRES LES PLUS BEAUX ET DES PLUS IMPORTANTS QUE L'ON AIT SUR L'ORNITHOLOGIE' (Brunet), complete with Cuvier's rare 'Prospectus'. 'This fine treatise, with its remarkable coloured plates, was intended as a supplement to Buffon's Planches enluminées' (Wood), and describes many new species (cf. Whittell). The nomenclature was provided by Temminck (cf. 'Prospectus' p.9), while Laugier de Chartrouse provided the greater part of the specimens depicted and described from his cabinet. Published in both folio and quarto formats, uniform with Buffon's work, the work is found with the text and plates bound either in systematic order, like the present copy, following Buffon's species and plates (as described in the 'Table Méthodique'), or in order of publication. Anker 502; BM(NH) V, p.2082; Brunet V, col.693-694; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.147; Nissen IVB 932; Ronsil 2892; Whittell p.712; Wood pp.593-594; Zimmer pp.626-628 (5)
Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complèment aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4° de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1770. Paris, Strassburg and Amsterdam: by A. Bellin for F.G. Levraut and Legras Imbert, [1820]-1838-[1839]. 5 volumes, 4° (357 x 267mm). Letterpress titles, half-titles, 'Prospectus', 'Table Méthodique' and 'Post-scriptum'. Text leaves and plates bound in systematic order, 594 (of 600) hand-coloured engraved plates, 4 double-page, after Nicholas Huet fils and Jean Gabriel Prêtre. (Light browning and offsetting, clean tears slightly 2 leaves of text.) Contemporary roan-backed boards, the spines titled in gilt (extremities a little rubbed and scuffed, cracking affecting some hinges). Provenance: J.G. van Marle (bookplates).
'UN DES LIVRES LES PLUS BEAUX ET DES PLUS IMPORTANTS QUE L'ON AIT SUR L'ORNITHOLOGIE' (Brunet), complete with Cuvier's rare 'Prospectus'. 'This fine treatise, with its remarkable coloured plates, was intended as a supplement to Buffon's Planches enluminées' (Wood), and describes many new species (cf. Whittell). The nomenclature was provided by Temminck (cf. 'Prospectus' p.9), while Laugier de Chartrouse provided the greater part of the specimens depicted and described from his cabinet. Published in both folio and quarto formats, uniform with Buffon's work, the work is found with the text and plates bound either in systematic order, like the present copy, following Buffon's species and plates (as described in the 'Table Méthodique'), or in order of publication. Anker 502; BM(NH) V, p.2082; Brunet V, col.693-694; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.147; Nissen IVB 932; Ronsil 2892; Whittell p.712; Wood pp.593-594; Zimmer pp.626-628 (5)