BOURJOT SAINT-HILAIRE Alexandre - Lot 64

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BOURJOT SAINT-HILAIRE Alexandre - Lot 64
BOURJOT SAINT-HILAIRE Alexandre Natural history of parrots. Third volume to follow the two volumes of Levaillant... Paris, F. G.Levrault, 1837-1838. In-4, 27 x 36cm, LVI pp. 130 ff, 1 folded table, 111 pl., posterior blue half-percaline boards. First edition. The illustration includes 111 plates of parrots, lithographed after Jacques Christophe Werner (1798-1856) and watercolored. A good copy. From the library of the English ornithologist Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), president of the British Ornithologists' Union, with his engraved bookplate. His collection of over 230,000 species (birds and insects) is held in the British Museum. Some foxing. One spine split.
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