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Travies, Edouard
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 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, one plate with a closed repaired tear extending into image, 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.