pauquet polydore ca 1800 (3 risultati)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small 4to., (9 2/8 x 6 inches). Half-title, letterpress title-page. Additional hand-colored engraved vignette title-page and 80 fine hand-colored engraved plates after Pauquet and 2 uncoloured (some light browning and one or two spots). Contemporary French red morocco backed marbled paper boards, gilt, original front wrapper bound in. Provenance: with the small bookplate of H. Bradley Martin on the front pastedown. First edition. This work combines with the "Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Exotiques" (1836) to form the "Bibliothque Zoologique". The freres Pauquet, were reknowned 19th-century illustrators of a number of very popular works including "Modes et Costumes Historiques Dessinés et Gravés par Pauquet Frères d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres de Chaque Epoque" (ca 1865) and H. Lucas's "Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères Exotiques" (1845). Nissen 541. For more information about this book, or a warm welcome to see it and other books in our library at 72nd Street, NYC, please contact Kate Hunter, M.A. Oxon, in the Rare Book Department.

Hardcover. Large 8vo., (9 4/8 x 6 inches). Half-title with publisher's adverts on verso, letterpress title-page. Additional hand-coloured engraved title-page, 80 fine hand-coloured engraved plates (one or two loose), and two uncoloured at end (these last with pale marginal waterstain). Original green cloth, gilt (worn with loss and upper hinge split near the head of the spine). Provenance: near contemporary ownership inscription on the half-title of Geo. Shearwood dated 1869; with later pencilled inscription dated 1924 beneath. First published in 1836. Magnificent plates of exotic hummingbirds, birds of paradise, parrots (including some Australian cockatoos), toucans, a lyre bird, Cardinal and Blue-jay. The freres Pauquet, were reknowned 19th-century illustrators of a number of very popular works including "Modes et Costumes Historiques Dessinés et Gravés par Pauquet Frères d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres de Chaque Epoque" (ca 1865) and H. Lucas's "Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères Exotiques" (1845). Nissen IVB 541, Zimmer II, 496.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo., (8 4/8 x 5 2/8 inches). Half-title, letterpress title-page. Hand-colored engraved vignette title-page and 80 fine hand-colored engraved plates after Pauquet (a few pale marginal stains). Contemporary French red morocco gilt, all edges gilt (extremities scuffed). First edition. This work combines with the "Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Europe" to form the "Bibliothque Zoologique". The freres Pauquet, were reknowned 19th-century illustrators of a number of very popular works including "Modes et Costumes Historiques Dessinés et Gravés par Pauquet Frères d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres de Chaque Epoque" (ca 1865) and H. Lucas's "Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères Exotiques" (1845). Each finely coloured and exquisite plate captures the essence of 169 different birds, from the subtle colors of small brown sparrows to the startling iridescent greens and blues of the common magpie, and the bright reds and yellows of various species of finch. Nissen IVB 540; Ripley, p.167; Ronsit 1735; Wood, p.431; Zimmer, p.383. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.