Achille Comte | The book of birds, London, 1841, contemporary red half morocco

Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Achille Comte

The book of birds: edited and abridged from the text of Buffon... Illustrated by one hundred and fifty designs by Victor Adam. London: R. Tyas, 1841

8vo (245 x 163mm.), additional engraved title, 38 hand-coloured engraved plates by P. Colin, Migneret, Guyard, and others after Victor Adam, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, light scattered spotting, preliminary leaves slightly browned, some transfer from plates onto facing leaves, caption of plate 10 shaved at outer margin, extremities slightly bumped

Edited and abridged from the text of Buffon by A. Comte, 38 coloured plates after V. Adam, translated by B. Clarke.

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Nissen IVB 202