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Temminck, Coenraad Jacob and le Baron Guillaume Michel Jérome Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse.Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris: F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg: Même Maison; Amsterdam: Legras Imbert et Comp. [1820]- 1838-[1839]. First edition, 5 volumes, large 4to (353 x 260mm.), half-titles, 597 (of 600) finely hand-coloured engraved plates after Nicolas Hüet and Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, & others, (2 double-page, 3 folding), contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt, some light spotting and some light offsetting, lightly rubbedProvenance:The Library of a Country House.Note: 'UN DES LIVRES LES PLUS BEAUX ET DES PLUS IMPORTANTS QUE L'ON AIT SUR L'ORNITHOLOGIE' (Brunet), complete with Cuvier's rare 'Prospectus'.This fine treatise, with its remarkable coloured plates, was intended as a supplement to Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (1770-1786). This is a particularly large example of the quarto issue of this massive work, originally published in 102 parts over almost two decades from August 1820 to January 1839. Temminck supplied most of the text, while the key contribution of Baron Laugier de Chartrouse lay in providing specimens for the plates from his collection. Published in both folio and quarto formats, uniform with Buffon's work, the work is found with the text and plates bound either in systematic order, like the present copy, following Buffon's species and plates (as described in the 'Table Méthodique' at the beginning of volume 1), or in order of publication. Temminck, director of the Museum at Leiden, is regarded as one of the foremost ornithologists of his time. Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768 – 1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated birds, mammals and reptiles in a large number of books. He was an outstanding ornithological artist and worked first for Empress Josephine's zoo, and then for the Natural History Museum in Paris. He drew the natural history specimens collected on a number of important French geographical and exploratory expeditions including Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe, Freycinet's Voyage autour du Monde, Laplace's Voyage autour du monde and others. Early in his career Prêtre worked closely with Temminck who paid him the compliment of naming the red-spectacled parrot after him (Phaethornis pretrei). A prolific artist, he also illustrated Palisot's Flore d'Oware et de Benin, Tussac's Flore des Antilles, the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles published between 1816 and 1830, and the ornithological works of Lesson, Temminck and Vieillot. The plates are superbly hand-coloured. Anker 503; Fine Bird Books, 1990, p. 147; Nissen IVB 932.
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