Lesson, Réné Primevere
£1,750
Auction: 16 September 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques. Paris: A. Bertrand, [1835]. 8vo, 43 hand-coloured engraved plates [3 folding], some spotting of text, a few plates very slightly discoloured or very slightly spotted; [Idem] Histoire naturelle des colibris, suivie d'un supplément à l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches. Paris: A. Bertrand, [n.d.] 66 hand-coloured engraved plates, some spotting, chiefly to text, occasionally affecting a plate; [Idem] Les trochilidées ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches. Paris: A. Bertrand, [1831]. 65 [of 66] hand-coloured plates [lacking plate 16], slight discolouration and some spotting, all volumes with tissue guards, uniform contemporary green morocco gilt, spines very slightly faded (3)
Footnote
Provenance: Douglas & Clydesdale, inscription on endapers.