Knip, Pauline (1781-1851) & Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858). - photo 1
Knip, Pauline (1781-1851) & Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858). - photo 2

Knip, Pauline (1781-1851) & Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858).

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€ 15 000
Auction dateClassic
11.12.2020 10:00UTC +02:00
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Auktionshaus Kiefer
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Germany, Pforzheim
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Lot 1321 | Knip, Pauline (1781-1851) & Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858).
Knip, Pauline (1781-1851) & Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858). Les Pigeons. Mit 87 kolorierten Farbstichen von C. Macret nach Zeichnungen von Madame Knip. [2] ll., pp. 13, (1), (23)-41, 128, 30. Paris, chez l'Auteur et Gamery (1808)-1811). Gr.Fol. Roter Halbmaroquinbd. der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung
Nissen, Vogelb. 51 1. Anker 261; Nissen, ZBI, 511 and IVB 511; Fine Bird Books (1990), 113; Zimmer pp.356-57; R. Ronsil, Madame Knip ... et son oeuvre ornithologique, in: Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History III (1957), 207ff.; D'Anreville u.a., L'Impératrice Joséphine et les sciences naturelles (1997), n° 114; Dickinson, et al., Histoire naturelle des pigeons or Les pigeons: C. J. Temminck versus Pauline Knip, in: Archives of Natural History, vol. XXXVII (2010), p. 203ff. Das schönste aller Taubenbücher. - Der Text des Werkes ist von C. J. Themminck. - Les Pigeons. Folio (523x350 mm). [2] ll., pp. 13, (1), (23)-41, 128, 30. With 87 plates by Caesar Macret after Madame Knip, printed in colours by Millevoy and finished by hand under the supervision of the artist. Contemporary half long grained morocco, smooth spine divided by ornamental fillets into six panels, the second with lettering, the rest alternately gilt tooled with an vase resp. a semis of small stars, gilt oak leaf roll border on covers, centre of front cover with gilt inscription within a large escutcheon. Binding slightly rubbed at caps, rear joint restored, front hinge loosening, fabric tape on edges. Intermittent and occasional heavy spotting throughout. First edition of the artistically most ambitious bird book before Audubon, Selby, and Lear a generation later. Pauline Knip, née Rifer de Courcelles, a pupil of the celebrated Jacques Barraband and a protégée of the Empress Marie-Louise, was a renowned bird artist in Paris. Her fame is mainly due to the present illustrations of pigeons that are "among the finest of all bird plates" (Fine Bird Books, p. 86). Knip painted 48 birds after specimens in the Natural History Museum in Paris and copied the rest from drawings by Jean Gabriel Prêtre, sent to her by Temminck from the Netherlands. This work is a curiosity in publication history. It was originally planned to be published under the title Histoire générale des pigeons by the famous Dutch ornithologist Temminck, who commissioned the paintings from Madame Knip. At the ninth livraison Madame Knip accomplished a piece of finesse, by which she usurped the publication from Temminck and appropriated it to herself. To do this she changed the cover title of the ninth and following livraisons, furnished a new title page crediting the work to herself with text by Temminck, substituted a new Discours sur les pigeons, and directed the binder to suppress Temminck's introduction, his index and his Discours. To account for the gap in the pagination of the text between the pages 13 and 23 she even went so far as to declare it was a typographical error. The fraud impelled Temminck to republish the text in three volumes between 1813-1815. A fine copy in a presentation binding with the following gilt tooled inscription on front cover: Don de la munificence et des bontés de son Excellence Monseigneur le comte de Montalivet, ministre de l'intérieur - 1813. Jean-Pierre Bachasson, Comte de Montalivet (1766-1823), was director of the Legion of Honor, and, from 1806, head of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées as which he oversaw large-scale urban works in Paris, such as the Arc de Triomphe and the Palais Brongniar, as well as the expansion of sewage works. In 1809 he became Minister of the Interior.
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