Live veiling - Lot 773
[Ornithology]
Les oiseaux de l'Indochine française.
(Aurillac, Imp. du Cantal républicain), 1931
€ 250 / 300
Live bieden (Drouot*) Live bieden (Invaluable*)Biedingen zijn afgesloten.
Beschrijving lot
4 vol. 8vo; 67 pl. (foxing, esp. in vol. II-III, marginal dampstains in all vol., some marginal wormholes in vol. III and IV, some ff. unopened).
Sewn (upper covers of vol. III & IV torn).
First edition of this work on the birds of French Indochina, published on the occasion of the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931. Illustrated with 66 chromolithographs, 1 lithograph and 3 full-pages (2 maps and bird's anatomy). Ref. Nissen, ZBI, 228. - Nissen, Vogel, 228. - Ronsil 761. - Not in Anker.