Coenraad Temminck | Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, 1838, 5 vols, contemporary half calf

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

Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris: F.G. Levrault, 1838

5 volumes, folio (542 x 355mm.), large paper copy, 600 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half calf, leaves uncut, marbled endpapers, some spotting, volume 1 rebacked retaining original spine, upper joint of volume 3 splitting

Not least because of this monumental work, Temminck (1778-1858), who directed the National Museum of Natural History at Leiden, is regarded as one of the foremost ornithologists of his time. This work is notable for its monumentality and numerous fine hand-coloured illustrations, yet collations for it vary because of its complex and irregular publishing history.

PROVENANCE:

Henry Gee Barnard (1789–1859), Captain of the Scots Greys, of Cave Castle, near Beverley, Yorkshire, armorial bookplates

LITERATURE:

Anker 503; Fine Bird Books, p. 111; McGill/Wood, p. 593 ("remarkable colored illustrations"); Nissen IVB 932; Zimmer, pp. 626-628