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Levaillant, François.
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d’Afrique. Paris: J.J. Fuchs, [1796]-1799-1808-[1812]
first edition, 6 volumes, folio (335 x 240mm.), half titles, 300 engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, nineteenth-century calf, spine tooled gilt in compartments, some browning, offsetting and foxing, plates 145 and 146 torn with loss of plate number, joints rubbed
Literature
Anker 297; Nissen IVB 555; Zimmer, p. 391; Ronsil 1780
Catalogue Note
“Levaillant’s most prominent work… it gives a comprehensive account of the birds of South Africa, based on Levaillant’s personal experience and the collections he made during his journeys in that region” (Anker).