Catalogue des oiseaux de la collection de feu M. le bon. de Lafresnaye de Falaise
Contributors: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, former owner; Gelin & Keller
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Falaise?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Catalogs; Catalogs and collections; Birds; Bird collections
Notes: Facsimile of a manuscript catalog, reproduced by lithography.

Imprint information from British Museum catalogue (Natural history) and Ronsil.

Arranged by family and subfamily, with each specimen numbered from 1 to 8656; each entry includes scientific name in Latin and information on age and sex of each specimen; type specimens are noted.

"Lith. Gelin & Keller" --p. 258.

BM (Nat. hist.), v. 3, p. 1044

Ronsil, R. Bibliographie ornithologique, p. 265-6

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SCNHRB copy (39088015710064) imperfect: lacking original t.p.

SCNHRB copy has ink ms. notes on 2nd front free endpaper: Catalogue of the collection of birds belonging to the late Baron de La Fresnaye, 1865, on sale by Ed. Vermeer, Paris / S.F. Baird [and] Catalogue of the Lafresnaye collection of birds.

SCNHRB copy has pencilled note on 2nd front free endpaper: "Now in Mus. of Comp. Zoo., Harvard."

SCNHRB copy includes a ms. index in ink on back free endpaper.

SCNHRB copy has a few underlinings in blue pencil throughout volume.

SCNHRB copy has stamp on front paste-down endpaper and front free endpaper: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 9, 1882 [ms. acc. no.] 124302.

SCNHRB copy half bound in diced leather and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine.