Oiseaux - Abe. Books. Bookseller Image. Item Description: Paris, Denn. Large- folio (5. 15 x 3. With 1. 14 colour- printed engraved plates, with extensive gouache hand- finishing, some heightened in gold, extra illustrated with 2 original watercolours. Contemporary tree calf, richly gilt ornamented spines with bird ornaments, red and black gilt lettered labels, sides with gilt borders (bound by the Dutch bookbinder J. An exceptional Deluxe Copy of one of the most spectacular works on exotic birds, a presentation copy to Jacob Temminck. A BRIEF NOTE UPON THE BATTLES OF SAINTES AND MAURON I351 AND. Gown ' on Saint Scholastica's day at. Avec vous depuis 15 ans. The plates of the 'Oiseaux de Paradis.' are usually printed in colour and lightly finished by hand. Copies, as the present one, with gouache colouring and illumination on a bistre base and sometimes heightened with gold, and adding extensive foliage and branches to each plate were prepared for special presentation. These copies were extra illustrated with original watercolours and the plates are more brilliant and lively. Our copy has two original watercolours 'Tete de l'Oiseaux de Paradis grand Emeraude grandeur naturelle' and 'L'Oiseau de Paradis l'Incomparable grandeur naturelle'. Some faint occasional marginal dampstaining. Along with his equally famous work on parrots, the 'Oiseaux de Paradis' is the pinnacle of Levaillant's achievement in book production and the finest example of Jacques Barraband's brilliance as a bird artist. Ronsil considered this work to be unequalled among French bird books. The illustrations include 2. The plates were engraved by P. Jacques Barraband's work for Levaillant undoubtedly marks the high point of his career and makes it clear why he was considered the best ornithological artist of his generation. He was a pupil of Joseph Maline and subsequently worked as a draughtsman at the Gobelins tapestry factory. His painted porcelain was exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1. Napoleon's chateau at St Cloud. Barraband's relatively early death at the age of 4. Audubon and Gould have perhaps prevented him from being placed alongside his contemporary Redout. He produced over 3. Levaillant's books. Fran. When his father returned to Europe, in 1. Metz. He was sent by the Dutch East India Company to the Cape Province of South Africa in 1. He sent over 2,0. ![]() The villa is located in a strategic place that allows to shine in several departments in the day. Jacob Temminck, who had financed the expedition, and these were later studied by his son Conrad Jacob Temminck and are included in the collection of the museum at Leiden. Temminck had a powerful position as treasurer of the Dutch East India Company. Besides, he had a lively interest in natural history, maintaining both a cabinet and an aviary with living birds. The size of his collection at that early date is not known. However, Levaillant was impressed by this 'brilliante collection' Temminck was the obvious person to be approached by Levaillant to help him with his plans for travelling abroad considering the similarities in age and interest, as well as Temminck's position. Our copy together with the 'Oiseaux d'Afrique' was sold in Paris 'Aguttes 1. April 2. 01. 0' (the copies got split up later). Both items had identical bindings, and both copies were special copies with original plates inserted and clearly belonged together. 15 of rollers; 17 of jays; 18 of toucans; 24 of barbets; 5 of tamatias. The birds are arranged by diet, showing birds of prey (42. 17 - COLLECTIF ULTIMATUM. 17480 LE CHATEAU D'OLERON. 17620 SAINT JEAN D'ANGLE Activit. The 'Oiseaux d'Afrique' has a handwritten dedication to J. A compter de 1. 76. LE PLUS BEAU ET LE PLUS CELEBRE LIVRE ILLUSTRE DE BUFFON. TRES RARE ET SUPERBE EXEMPLAIRE TIRE SUR GRAND PAPIER BIEN COMPLET DE SES 1 0. PLANCHES A PLEINE PAGE FINEMENT COLORIEES A L’EPOQUE. Cohen, 1. 94 ; Nissen, IV, B, 1. Brunet, I, 1. 37. Ronsil, 7. 6. Drapiez, Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles, VIII, 1. Superbe exemplaire bien complet de ses 1 0. VIEILLOT, Louis Jean Pierre (1. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de l'Amerique Septentrionale, contenant un grand nombre d'especes decrites ou figurees pour la premiere fois. Paris: Chez Desray, 1. Folio (1. 9 4/8 x 1. Extra- illustrated with a double- page and folding engraved map of . Herisson, published by Desray, tipped- in before the plates, 1. J.- G. Bouquet, printed in colors by Langlois and finished by hand (preliminaries to volume one loose, some occasionally heavy spotting throughout). Contemporary half scarlet morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt (extremities quite scuffed). First edition of this superb American ornithology, containing descriptions of many North American birds, some of which predate those of Alexander Wilson. Vieillot, along with Wilson, was a pioneer in a new kind of ornithology in which birds were no longer assessed as specimens and skins but studied as living organisms within their environment. Very little is known of the life of this famous ornithologist closely associated with American as well as French birds: in all 2. North American bird were originally described by Vieillot, and he gave the Wild Turkey, the Pintail, the Cedar Waxwing, and the Scarlet Tanager their Latin scientific names. Vieillot emigrated from France to Santo Domingo in 1. United States in about 1. Six years later, destitute, he returned to Paris and published . Vieillot, was overshadowed by Buffon and Georges Frederic Cuvier and rejected by his contemporaries in the field, but his controbution to the ornithology of the New World eventually gained recognition after his death. Allen 5. 49- 5. 52; Anker 5. Fine Bird Books 1. Nissen IVB 9. 57; Yale/Ripley p. Zimmer p. 6. 54. 1. Somptueux exemplaire du tirage de luxe au format grand in- folio. Paris, Desray, 1. Soit au total 1. 90 planches. Empreinte ronde d'un verre humide sur le plat du second volume. Sumptuous copy from the deluxe issue in large folio format. Paris, Desray, 1. A total of 1. 90 plates. A few light minor foxing. Quarter red morocco, flat spine richly decorated, yellow edges. Round mark of a wet glass on the cover of the second volume. Large folio (5. 00 x 3. With 1. 90 (1 double- page) colour- printed engraved plates by Audebert, many heightened with gold, printed by Langlois. Contemporary red half morocco, richly gilt ornamented spines in 7 compartments. A beautifully bound and very clean copy, of one of two hundred copies in folio with the captions printed in gold. It is the gold reflections of the plumage that render the book unique and wonderful. Napoleon initiated a series of magnificent natural history publications that would vie with those undertaken to the order of Louis XIV, such as the present book together with Levaillant's superb ornithological monographs as well as the works by Redout. The general title of the work is actually taken from the half- titles, each volume treating several genera and having its own title page. Volume I: 'Histoire naturelle et g. Ledebour, Rotterdam. Fine Bird Books p. Nissen IVB, 1. 6; Ronsil 1. Anker 1. 4. 1. 31 etched plates after J.- G. Bouquet, printed in colors by Langlois and finished by hand, extra- illustrated with a double- page engraved map of L'Amerique Septentrionale (as usual, plate number 4. Atlas Universel). Contemporary red morocco, covers with border of gilt fillets and a dog- tooth roll, spines in six compartments with double- raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt tooling and the space between each pair of bands with a narrow onlay of black morocco, lettered in gilt on labels in the second and third compartments, gilt turn- ins, marbled endpapers Provenance: Samuel Jones- Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (1. Robert James Lindsay (1. Baron Wantage of Lockinge, VC, KCB, FRS, circular armorial booklabel) A fine uncut wide- margined copy of the first edition of this classic of American ornithology. The work contains descriptions of many North American birds, some of which predate those of Alexander Wilson. Vieillot, along with Wilson, was a pioneer in a new kind of ornithology in which birds were no longer assessed as specimens and skins but studied as living organisms within their environment. The plates bear all the hallmarks of the great French natural history books of the first two decades of the 1. The plates are individual works of art, whilst also being scientifically- accurate pictorial documents of the highest order, and they are, invariably, carefully observed and beautifully printed. Allen 5. 49- 5. 52; Anker 5. Fine Bird Books (1. Nissen IVB 9. 57; Ronsil 3. Yale/Ripley p. 3. Zimmer p. 6. 54. Large folio (6. Descourtilz. Contemporary half green morocco marbled boards, original green glazed paper wrappers bound- in, traces of old foxing, a very attractive copy. A fine example of this superb production, with the original paper wrappers. Brazil, incomparably rich in natural history resources, has one of the finest bird diversities in the world. Unlike other similarly blessed countries however, these species were not as thoroughly depicted as they might have been in the heyday of great bird books. This was probably at least in part due to the difficulties of exploring the Amazon. The finest record of Brazilian birds published during the nineteenth century was the Ornithologie Bresilienne of Jean Theodore Descourtilz, a French ornithologist, who shortly before his death was appointed to the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. Despite producing the most splendid of all books devoted to Neotropical birds, Descourtilz managed to live out his life in an obscurity that has not been illumined since. The little we know is this: He was born sometime in 1. Michel . We know nothing of Th. We know he went to Brazil around 1. National Museum in Rio de Janeiro in which he refers to a hummingbird he had seen only twice in five years. His first published work on Brazilian birds, Oiseaux brillants du Br. For the next twenty years he spent time in various parts of southeastern Brazil, doing scientific collecting for the government and the National Museum, all the while developing this more comprehensive work on Brazilian birds, four parts of which were published between 1. He was unable to do more: On January 1. Esp. Ornithologie bresilienne contains descriptions and figures of 1. Brazilian birds, including 1. Zimmer). The plates were made up in London, and the work appears to have been printed by Waterlow and Sons and also Joseph Masters and Co.
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