Histoire naturelle des oiseaux suivant la classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. Avec l'indication de leurs moeurs et de leurs rapport avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture.

4to: [6]-xlviii-425-[2] pp. (some min. spotting).

Cont. blue half shagreen (corners bumped), cloth on covers, gilt orn. spine on 4 raised bands (upper joint splitting), a.e.g. Good copy.

First edition of this work on birds by the French naturalist Em. Le Maout (1799-1877) originally publ. in 50 instalments. Illustr. with a frontisp., 19 b/w plates on a tinted background and 15 splendid hand-coloured lithographs showing birds in their natural environment. Hundreds of sm. wood engravings in texto. Ref. Anker 285. - Nissen (IVB) 542. - Vicaire V:189-190. - Bn-Opale plus.