Pauline Knip (1781-1851) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858)

Pauline Knip (1781-1851) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858)
Les Pigeons, Paris: for the author and Garnery, [1808–]1811.
First edition, volume one only, bound from 15 original parts, half-title, 87 etched plates after Pauline Knip and César Macret, printed partly in colour and finished by hand, most discretely titled in pencil by a contemporary hand, a few shaved at the outer margin, tissue guards, somewhat spotted, browned at extremities, contemporary red morocco-backed boards, tooled gilt in compartments, spine repaired at ends with slight loss, extremities bumped, untrimmed, folio

Provenance:
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Literature:
Fine Bird Books, p. 86; Nissen IVB 511