Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris: F.G. Levrault, 1838

5 volumes, folio (542 x 355mm.), large paper copy, 600 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half calf, leaves uncut, marbled endpapers, some spotting, volume 1 rebacked retaining original spine, upper joint of volume 3 splitting

Not least because of this monumental work, Temminck (1778-1858), who directed the National Museum of Natural History at Leiden, is regarded as one of the foremost⭕ ornithologists of his time. This work i🎶s notable for its monumentality and numerous fine hand-coloured illustrations, yet collations for it vary because of its complex and irregular publishing history.

LITERATURE:

Anker 503; Fine Bird Books, p. 111; McGill/Wood, p. 593 ("remarkable colored illustrations"); Nissen IVB 932; Zimmer, pp. 626-628

PROVENANCE:

Henry Gee Ba🦂rnard (1789–1859), Captain of the Scots Greys, of Cave Castle, near Beverley, Yorkshire, armorial bookplates