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Histoire naturelle d’une partie d’oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l’Amérique et des Indes

Attributed to: Jn. Lebrecht Reinold
Printed by: Langlois (active 1805–1840)
Author: François Levaillant (French, 1753–1824)
Publisher: Dufour (Firm) (18th century)
Printer: Pierre-Nicolas Firmin Didot (French, active from 1795)
1801
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 49 [i.e., 98] color etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall: 55 x 37.5 x 5.2 cm (21 5/8 x 14 3/4 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Jessie and Sigmund Katz Collection
Accession Number1980.620
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Didot jeune, for J. E. Gabriel Dufour, 1801

Catalogue Raisonné Nissen 557; Anker 300
Description(Paris: Didot jeune, for J. E. Gabriel Dufour, 1801) Folio; [2 ff.] iii, 112 pp., plus 49 [i.e., 98] plates; contemporary gilt-stamped half red morocco, blue pastepaper boards.

Illustrations of birds.
ProvenanceMrs. Sigmund J. Katz, by whom given to MFA January 14, 1981.