£2,000
Desmarest (Anselme-Gaetan), HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES TANGARAS, DES MANAKINS ET DES TODIERS [Natural History Of Tangaras, Manakins and Todiers], XIII=1805 edition, ¾ leather, brown cloth boards, gilt embossed decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, James Ormrod bookplate to inside front cover, half title, seventy two engraved colour plates after the drawings of Mademoiselle Pauline De Courcelles, published by L-E Herhan, Paris 1805 (at fault)
PROVENANCE: From the collection of James Ormrod and thence by descent.
The binding shows staining to brown cloth boards, bumps to all corners, scratches, scuffs and small tears to the leather, and splits to the lower edges of the spine extending for approximately 3cm. The paper shows some age-related darkening and many pages show some foxing. The reverse side of the bird print pages show some marking, presumably related to the printing process.
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