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Item Details
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| Author: |
Brisson, [Mathurin Jacques] |
| Title: |
Ornithologie ou Méthode... |
| Place: |
Paris |
| Publisher: |
Jean-Baptiste Bauche |
| Date: |
1760 |
| Item # : |
208326 |
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| Sale Number |
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416 |
| Lot Number |
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19 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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11/19/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 2700 |
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| Description: |
| 4 volumes (of 6). Volumes I-IV. xxiv, 526, lxxiii, [3]; 516, lxvii, [1]; 734, xci, [1]; 576, liv, [1] pp. each with an additional engraved title page; 165 (of 166) engraved folding plates of birds by Martinet. 9¾x7½, leather, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, all edges gilt. |
| Stunning collection on ornithology, each volume with two title pages, one in French and one in Latin; the volumes are written in both French and Latin in parallel columns. |
| Condition: |
| Heavy wear to extremities, spines shipping, frayed tips; hinges cracked; bookplate on each front pastedown; scattered foxing, the first 6 plates in Vol. I with ink labels next to each figure, 1 plate with dampstain, the rest very good or better; overall very good. |
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