Iconographie ornithologique
Subtitle: nouveau recueil général de planches peintes d'oiseaux
By: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, éditions in-folio et in-4 ̊de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 et aux planches coloriées de mm. Temminck et Laugier de Chartrouse, mêmes formats, accompagné d'un texte raisonné, critique et descriptif, publié par O. des Murs ; figures dessinées et peintes par Oudard, peintre attaché au Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Première partie
Contributors: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; Temminck, C. J. (Coenraad Jacob), 1778-1858; Meiffren-Laugier de Chartrouse, Guillaume Michel Jérôme, baron, 1772-1843; Provost, A., fl. 1834-1855, ill; Oudart, P. L. (Paul Louis), 1796-1860, ill; Becquet (Firm); Becquet frères; Imprimerie Dondey-Dupré
Publisher: Chez Friedrich Klincksieck [etc., etc.]
Published: 1845
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works
Other titles: Iconographie ornithologique; Nouveau recueil général de planches peintes d'oiseaux; Iconographie ornithologique ou nouveau recueil général de planches peintes d'oiseaux
Notes: Published in 12 livraisons of 6 plates each with corresponding text.

"The text of each species is separately dated but as these dates are not consecutive throughout they probably represent the completion of the manuscript and not the dates of issue."--Zimmer.

No more published.

"Paris.--Imprimerie Dondey-Dupré ..."--Verso of half-title.

The plates are signed: A. Prévost, pinxt. et lith.; P. Oudart pinxt. et lith.; O. Des Murs dirt.; Lith. de Becquet.

Errors in plate numbering: 51 should be 53; 53 should be 51; 69 should be 70; 70 should be 71; 71 should be 68.

Includes bibliographical references.

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., 168

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 239

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SCNHRB copy 39088013370648 has a partly engraved, partly hand-drawn and colored, plate numbered 73 ("Milvago carunculatus") inserted at the end of the volume. This plate has been trimmed to a smaller size, but otherwise appears to be in the same style as the first 72 plates. The plate is signed: P. Oudart pinxt. et lith.; LIth. de Becquet frères; O. des Murs dirext.

SCNHRB copy has some sections of the descriptive text bound out of order (i.e. not according to plate number), but the text appears to be complete.

SCNHRB copy has stamp on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jul. 28, 1905; accession no.: 192630. With a few brief ms. pencil annotations and markings.

SCNHRB copy has an old gilt-tooled red quarter-leather binding with mottled paper boards, raised bands, and top edge gilt.