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Violet Musophaga AVB47 $125

Some of the world’s most beautiful birds are masterfully illustrated in Vieillot and Oudart’s 1825 work “La Galerie des oiseaux du cabinet d'historie naturelle du Jardin du Roi."

Louis Pierre Vieillot (1748-1831), a French naturalist, was one of the first ornithologists to observe the habits of birds in order to better classify them. Leaving France at the time of the French Revolution, Vieillot spent over ten years in North America greatly contributing to the taxonomy of birds of the New World. During this period, he classified numerous North American birds including the Eastern turkey, Virginia Rail, American Pintail and Scarlet Tanager. Very little is known about his life, but we do know that when he died, probably in 1831, he was blind and poverty-stricken; yet he left us a legacy in descriptive ornithology.

The condition of the finely hand-colored engravings is excellent, on quality wove paper. These prints are all ORIGINAL copper engravings from 1825 that have been exquisitely hand colored by one of the few remaining professional colorists in England whose specialty is birds, and following the descriptions & images of the species illustrated. Each single print is large quarto measuring approximately 8 inches by 10 inches; and the double-sized prints, approximately 10 1/4 inches by 17 inches. The relevant original text is included whenever possible, along with a copy of the title page. The photos are very accurate, so please review carefully. All our prints are authentic antique prints and guaranteed to be from the stated date; and, as such, these prints are over 200 years old.

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