Histoire naturelle des Toucans
Contents
François Levaillant, 1801-1806
Histoire naturelle des Toucans, complete set
By François Levaillant, 1801-1806
All 12 plates of Histoire naturelle des Toucans as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.
- 12 plates, each 13¼ × 20¼ in
- A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
- A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
- A certificate of authenticity
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The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.
About the original
François Levaillant (1753-1824), the French naturalist and traveller born in Paramaribo, published Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus between 1801 and 1806 with the painter Jacques Barraband (1767-1809): two volumes with 114 engravings after Barraband, printed in colour and finished by hand.
Eighteen of the plates are given to toucans and araçaris, the subject of this series. One of them shows the red-belted araçari ‘in extreme old age’.
- Title
- Histoire naturelle des Toucans
- Published
- 1801-1806
- Plates
- 12
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