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LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824)

Lot 121
21.11.2022 12:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 121 | LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824)
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€ 60 000 – 80 000
LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celles des toucans et des barbus. Paris: chez Denné le jeune et Perlet, [1801]-1806.

Très bel exemplaire à toutes marges du tirage de luxe de format grand in-folio, imprimé sur papier vélin. Jacques Barraband fut certainement l'un des meilleurs peintres d'histoire naturelle de son temps et illustra de nombreux ouvrages ornithologiques dont un chapitre de la Description de l'Egypte. Les faux-titres indiquent que "toutes les figures de cet ouvrage ont été dessinées d'après nature par Barraband peintre, gravees par Pereée, et Gremilliet, et imprimées en couleurs par Langlois et Rousset". Les planches sont d'ailleurs imprimées grace au nouveau procédé dit "à la poupee", inventé par Henri-Joseph Redouté, qui permettait d'appliquer directement les couleurs sur les plaques de cuivre pour tirer les planches en un seul passage (et non par un passage pour chaque couleur). On trouve, encartée dans le premier volume, une liste manuscrite "Des principaux souscripteurs" à cette edition prestigieuse, où l'on rencontre les noms de hauts dignitaires de l'epoque en France (l'Empereur, Lucien Bonaparte, Talleyrand, le maréchal Berthier), en Allemagne (l'Empereur, le comte de Starhemberg, le duc de Brunswick), en Russie (l'Empereur, le comte Demidoff, le comte Woronzoff) et en Angleterre (le roi Georges, le prince de Galles, Lord Seymour). Nissen IVB 559; Fine Bird Books, p. 118; Ronsil 298; Wood, p. 434 ("magnificent work"); Zimmer, p. 393.

2 vol. grand in-folio (525 x 345 mm), exemplaire du tirage de luxe de l'édition originale, imprimé sur papier vélin. Avec les faux-titres. 114 planches dont deux dépliantes (respectivement numerotées 1 à 56; 1-18, 18bis, 20-37, A, 38-57) gravées d'après les dessins de Jacques Barraband, imprimées en couleurs et rehaussées à la main. Complet du feuillet d'errata relié à la fin du second volume. Demi-maroquin rouge à coins vers 1900, dos à nerfs ornés. Provenance: ex-libris du château d'Anet.

A wide-margined deluxe copy of the first edition, printed on vellum as large folios. A very attractive copy of a "magnificent work" (Wood), one of the most desirable ornithological books.
Place of origin:France
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