Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

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Lot 9
  • 9

Travies, Edouard

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • [Les Oiseaux les plus remarquables par leurs formes et leurs couleurs. Paris and London, c.1857]
  • paper
Folio (550 x 370mm.), 58 hand-coloured lithographed plates only (of 79), contemporary straight-grained green morocco gilt, covers with wide borders tooled in gilt and blind, binding rebacked

Literature

Nissen IVB 946; Wood, p.601

Catalogue Note

A collection of some of the finest lithographed ornithological plates of the nineteenth century.