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LESSON (RENÉ PRIMEVÈRE) Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches, Paris, Arthus Bertrand
11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
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LESSON (RENÉ PRIMEVÈRE)
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches, 86 engraved plates in 2 states (uncoloured and printed in colours, finished by hand), [1829-1830]; Histoire naturelle des colibris [Supplément a l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches], 66 engraved plates in 2 states (uncoloured proofs before letters on india paper mounted, and printed in colours, finished by hand), [1830–1832], FIRST EDITIONS, uniformly bound in contemporary blue boards, new endpapers, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, later gilt red morocco spine labels [Anker 291, 293; Nissen IVB 547, 548; Ronsil, p.90; Zimmer, p.386 & 388], 8vo, Paris, Arthus Bertrand
Footnotes
ONE OF 12 COPIES, WITH THE PLATES IN 2 STATES, of the first two of Lesson's studies of the humming-bird, with the plates "beautifully executed" (Anker).
Provenance: "J.B. Baillière, Foreign Bookseller, 219 Regent Street", bookseller's ticket on front pastedowns; Henry Gee Bernard, bookplate (1839).

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