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470 - BONAPARTE, Charles-Lucien *Iconographie des pigeons, non figurés par Mme Knip* [...]. Paris: P. Bertrand, 1857. Large folio; 55 plates (occasional spotting, mostly in the margins). Contemporary quarter-blue cloth, marbled paper boards, flat spine (upper part of spine coming loose, corners bumped, some light rubbing). First edition of this supplement to the famous work by Pauline de Courcelles (Mme Knip). Illustrated with 55 large lithographed plates, all beautifully hand-colored, by Oudart, Willy, and Blanchard. Initially, 30 installments were planned, but only 4 were published, containing 55 plates, irregularly numbered but complete according to Anker and Nissen. Ref. Anker 261 (note). - Nissen (VBI) 117. Formerly owned by Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), a prominent English ornithologist and founding member of the British Ornithologists’ Union.
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BONAPARTE, Charles-Lucien *Iconographie des pigeons, non figurés par Mme Knip* [...]. Paris: P. Bertrand, 1857. Large folio; 55 plates (occasional spotting, mostly in the margins). Contemporary quarter-blue cloth, marbled paper boards, flat spine (upper part of spine coming loose, corners bumped, some light rubbing). First edition of this supplement to the famous work by Pauline de Courcelles (Mme Knip). Illustrated with 55 large lithographed plates, all beautifully hand-colored, by Oudart, Willy, and Blanchard. Initially, 30 installments were planned, but only 4 were published, containing 55 plates, irregularly numbered but complete according to Anker and Nissen. Ref. Anker 261 (note). - Nissen (VBI) 117. Formerly owned by Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), a prominent English ornithologist and founding member of the British Ornithologists’ Union.
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