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KEEPSAKE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. DESCRIPTION DES OISEAUX suivie d'un exposé de l'art de les préparer et de les conserver.
by Comte, Achille text by Buffon illustrated by Victor Adam
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London, 1838. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand coloured plates heightened with gum (38 with 154 birds shown in groups from 2-6 per plate) by Victor Adam +uncoloured frontis portrait of Buffon +pretty hand coloured engraved titlepage by Pauquet /Rouget sc. all with tissue guards.. Small quarto plum roan spine extra gilt compartments & faux bands with cloth sides (tips a bit worn/rebacked with old spine relaid/cloth rubbed). Portrait Frontis +hand coloured titlepage +printed titlepage +Portrait +xxiii [1]p blank +312pp. Text pages with some foxing, more so to first & last pages. Plates mostly clean & white but a few have pale edge foxing. Two tissue guards torn, one at p17 lost. The plates are all beautifully hand coloured and heightened with gum.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Abbey Antiquarian Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- V74235
- Title
- KEEPSAKE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. DESCRIPTION DES OISEAUX suivie d'un exposé de l'art de les préparer et de les conserver.
- Author
- Comte, Achille text by Buffon illustrated by Victor Adam
- Illustrator
- Hand coloured plates heightened with gum (38 with 154 birds shown in groups from 2-6 per plate) by Victor Adam +uncoloured front
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- Victor Adam bird illustrations birds hand color
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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Blockley, Gloucestershire
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About Abbey Antiquarian Books
We are antiquarian booksellers established in Gloucestershire, England for over twenty years. We have general stock and specialise in early illustrated and children's books and pop-ups. We are members of PBFA.
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