Oiseaux dorés ou à reflets métalliques
Contributors: Audebert, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1759-1800; Audebert, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1759-1800; Vieillot, L. P. (Louis Pierre), 1748-1831
Publisher: Chez Desray, libraire ...
Published: 1802
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works
Notes: Title taken from collective half-title.

Each tome has its own added t.p.; imprint statement taken from added t.p.'s.

"A Paris, de l'imprimerie de Crapelet, an XI"--Verso of collective half-title.

Number of plates includes six double plates; plate no. 26 in t. 2 has two versions.

Errata listed at end of each tome.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies (c. 2 has t. 2, only).

SCNHRB c. 1 (t. 1, 39088007303241; t. 2, 39088007303142) has stamp on added t.p. which reads: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jul. 6, 1914; accession no. 229218 is added in ink in both tomes.

SCNHRB t. 2, c. 1 is imperfect: plate no. 14 in the second section is wanting.

SCNHRB c. 1 has modern tan buckram library bindings with marbled edges.

SCNHRB c. 2 has t. 2, only (39088007301633); t. 2, c. 2 is imperfect: the collective t.p. and plate no. 14 in the second section is wanting; plate no. 2 of the first section is used as a frontispiece.

SCNHRB t. 2, c. 2 has stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jul. 7, 1914; accession no. 229080 is added in ink.

SCNHRB t. 2, c. 2 has a modern quarter-binding of tan buckram with faux marbled paper boards and edges.
Table of contents: title: t. 1. Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops / par J.B. Audebert et L.P. Vieillot; title: t. 2. Histoire naturelle et générale des grimpereaux et des oiseaux de paradis / par J.B. Audebert et L.P. Vieillot.