Birds.- Audebert (J.B) and L.P. Vieillot. Oiseaux Dorés ou à Reflets

Birds.- Audebert (J.B) and L.P. Vieillot. Oiseaux Dorés ou à Reflets Métalliques, 2 vol., 190 engraved plates printed in colour, some heightened with gilt by Langlois, a few folding, 1 plate with short split at foldlines, light scattered spotting, Henry Rogers Broughton bookplates, contemporary calf, gilt, upper covers detached, covers a little marked, light bumping and rubbing to extremities, [Anker 14; Fine Bird Books p.56; Nissen IVB 47], large 4to, Paris, [1800]-1802. *** The plates "are among the best colour prints found in ornithology" (Anker). "The regular issue. Its plates, heightened with gold and so finished that they are little less than hand-illuminated engravings, make this one of the most beautiful books of its era... It is the gold reflections of the plumage that render the book unique and wonderful." (Fine Bird Books). A special edition was published of two hundred copies in large folio with the captions printed in gold.

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