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161. LENNON, John Skywriting by Word of Mouth. Pan Books/Jonathan Cape. 1986.
£48
8vo. Original pictorial boards; with drawings by the author; a fine copy. First edition.
162. LEVAILLANT, Francois. A New and Improved Edition of the “Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets.” Sydney, Brian Chester, 1989. £398
Small folio. Original green cloth, upper cover and spine titled in gilt, the cover with a large coloured title vignette laid down, taken from the original; pp. [18] + 73 + [12], and 158 coloured engraved plates of parrots by Jacques Baraband, reproduced after the originals; loose facsimile letter; fine.
Limited ‘Library’ edition, number 953 of 1000 numbered copies only. With foreword by Sir David Attenborough and “Ornithological Commentary” by Graham Phipps, Curator of Birds, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia. Text in French and English. The volumes from the McAlpine collection reproduced here carried fourteen extra plates and a frontispiece by Barbier that were not published in the Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, and these are included in this publication. “A famous fundamental treatise on parrots ... The chief value lies in the fine coloured plates.”
cf. Nissen IVB 558; Zimmer p. 392; Wood p. 434.
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163. LEVAILLANT, Francois. A New and Improved Edition of the “Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets.” Sydney, Brian Chester, 1989.
£1,000
Folio 555 x 405 mm. 2 vols. Coloured frontispiece and 157 coloured engraved plates of parrots by Jacques Baraband, reproduced after the originals, disbound as issued in two original green solander boxes with labels laid on to fronts, loose sealed facsimile letter to volume II; text in French and English; fine.
Limited edition, number 132 of 1000 numbered copies only. With foreword by Sir David Attenborough and “Ornithological Commentary” by Graham Phipps, Curator of Birds, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia. The volumes from the McAlpine collection reproduced here carried fourteen extra plates and a frontispiece by Barbier that were not published in the Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, and these are included here. This celebrated work by Francois Levaillant (1753-1824) was first published between 1801 - 5 and became renowned for the quality of Baraband’s illustrations as well as the author’s important discoveries of new species, which he named in French in defiance of the Linnean binomial system. “A famous fundamental treatise on parrots ... The chief value lies in the fine coloured plates.”
cf. Nissen IVB 558; Zimmer p. 392; Wood p. 434.
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