Charles de Souancé | Iconographie des Perroquets, Paris, 1857

Charles de Souancé

Iconographie des Perroquets. Non figurés dans les publications de Levaillant et de M. Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Paris: P. Bertrand, 1857

Folio (355 x 272 mm.), 48 fully or partially hand-coloured lithographed plates by E. Blanchard and J. Daverne, contemporary brown half morocco bound by J. & W. Quinton, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, some spotting

As the title indicates, this work was intended to supplement that of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. It was issued in large quarto and folio formats in twelve livraisons when publication ceased (the work was supposed to comprise thirty livraisons). The first fifteen plates by Blanchard have both the birds and the branches coloured, while the branches are left uncoloured in the remaining plates by Daverne. The final plate is misnumbered LXXIX as usual.

LITERATURE:

Anker 479; Fine Bird Books, p. 108; McGill/Wood, p. 578; Nissen IVB 887

PROVENANCE:

John Henry Gurney, Jun. (1848-1921), Easton Lodge, Norfolk, bookplate; Gurney was a noted ornithologist