ROUX (Polydore) - Lot 238

ROUX (Polydore) Ornithologie provençale or description with coloured figures of all the birds which inhabit Provence constantly or which are only passing through. Followed by a summary of hunting, some taxidermy instructions & a table of common names. Marseille, chez l'auteur, 1825 -1830, 2 text volumes LV pp. - 1 p. - 388 pp. for vol. 1 and 48 pp. chiff. from 1 to 48 (only published for part 2), 2 volumes bound in one vol. in-4 + 2 vol. of atlases, i.e. a set of 3 vol. in-4, navy blue half calf, smooth spine, ornamented. With 448 ornithological plates lithographed in color and gummed by Besson after Polydore Roux, sometimes with erroneous handwritten numbering. Bibliographies vary on the number of plates in this work (between 425 and 451). A very rare copy of the original edition, and especially complete with all the plates in this work, of which only the first of the six parts was published. Brunet IV, 1428.