Le Merle Catbird. Turdus felivox

by Ornithology, Jean Gabriel Pretre, Print

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Engraving printed in color and retouched by hand, 11 7/8 x 9 inches plate marks on a larger sheet. Plate 67 in Vieillot's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale Paris, 1807 . Anker Bird Books 515: The plates Pretre pinxt. are engravings printed in colour Bouquet sculpt., Langlois imp. , and retouched by hand. A little foxed mostly in margins , but with attractive coloring. Item #50578

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