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L’Ara Macao, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, L’Ara Macao.

Histoire naturelle des Perroquets, complete set

By François Levaillant, 1801-1805

All 45 plates of Histoire naturelle des Perroquets as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 45 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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Histoire naturelle des Perroquets

Contents

François Levaillant, 1801-1805

  1. 1L’Ara Macao
  2. 2L’Ara Canga
  3. 3L’Ara Rauna
  4. 4L’Ara Militaire
  5. 5L’Ara Tricolor
  6. 6Le grand Ara militaire
  7. 7L’Ara Macavouanne
  8. 8L’Ara Maracana, mâle
  9. 9L’Ara Maracana
  10. 10L’Ara Maracana Tapiré
  11. 11L’Ara gris à Trompe
  12. 12L’Ara noir a Trompe
  13. 13Tête del Ara noir à Trompe
  14. 14Perruche Ara pavouane
  15. 15Perruche Ara pavouane tapiré
  16. 16Perruche Ara, à gorge variée
  17. 17Perruche Ara, a bandeau rouge
  18. 18Perruche Ara, Guarouba mâle
  19. 19Perruche Ara, Guarouba femelle
  20. 20Perruche Ara, Guarouba dans son jeune âge
  21. 21Perruche Emeraude
  22. 22Perruche à rose (mâle)
  23. 23Le Jeune âge de la Perruche à collier rose (mâle)
  24. 24Perruche à tête bleue (mâle)
  25. 25Perruche à tête bleue
  26. 26Perruche à tête bleue
  27. 27Surnommée L’Arlequine
  28. 28La Perruche Omnicolore
  29. 29La Perruche Omnicolore
  30. 30La grande Perruche a Collier
  31. 31La Perruche a Poitrine Rose
  32. 32La Perruche Ingambe
  33. 33La Perruche à tête jaune
  34. 34La Perruche à front jaune ou l’Aputé-Juba, le mâle
  35. 35La Perruche à front jaune ou l’Aputé-Juba, la femelle
  36. 36Première variété de la Perruche à front jaune
  37. 37Seconde variété de la Perruche à front jaune
  38. 38La Perruche Souris
  39. 39La Perruche à double collier
  40. 40La Perruche à front rouge
  41. 41La Perruche couronnée d’or
  42. 42La Perrouche Sincialo, le mâle
  43. 43La Perruche soufre
  44. 44La Perruche écarlate
  45. 45La Perruche à collier noir

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 perroquets between 1801 and 1805: two volumes with 145 stipple engravings after paintings by Jacques Barraband (1767-1809), printed in colour and finished by hand.

Barraband rendered each feather in fine parallel lines, and some plates were heightened with touches of gold on the cheeks and shoulders to suggest the sheen of the plumage.

Title
Histoire naturelle des Perroquets
Published
1801-1805
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
45

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