Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature
Subtitle: Ornithologie
By: par l'abbé Bonnaterre, et continuée par L.P. Vieillot
Contributors: Vieillot, L. P. (Louis Pierre), 1748-1831; Cassin, John, 1813-1869, former owner; Bénard, Robert, b. 1734, engraver
Series: Encyclopédie méthodique
Publisher: Chez Mme. veuve Agasse ...
Published: 1823
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 1460
Other titles: Recueil de planches de l'Encyclopédie.
Notes: Published as part of the Encyclopédie méthodique (histoire naturelle).

Plates mostly signed by Bénard; other engravers and illustrators include: Barrois, Deseve, Drouet, Pierron, and Mlle. Cornu.

Text in double columns.

Vignette on t.p.'s; tail-pieces.

Continuously paged.

Plates no. 3 and 188 are double plates.

According to the "Avis" at the front of each volume, seven of the plates (nos. 241-247?) are to be found in "tome VII du Recueil", under the title, "Manière de connaître les oiseaux par le bec et par les pattes".

Copy 2 of ptie 1 has added t.p.'s dated 1790 and 1791.

Includes bibliographical references.