LOT 40 Les oiseaux de la chine, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Paris, G. Masson, 1877 DAVID (ARMAND) AND E. OUSTALET
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DAVID (ARMAND) AND E. OUSTALET
Les oiseaux de la chine, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 124 hand-coloured plates by and after Arnoul, some heightened with gum arabic, all mounted on stubs, publisher's blue pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., slightly worn at extremities of spine [Anker 113; Fine Bird Books, p.90; Nissen IVB 221; Wood, p.311; Zimmer, p.159], 8vo, Paris, G. Masson, 1877
|Important survey of the birds of China, including "249 of which are supposed to be peculiar to the Chinese fauna... the plates are finely drawn and coloured" (Anker).Provenance: Avicultural Society T.H. Newman Bequest 1944, bookplate.
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