Calao, de I’Isle Panay [Tarictic Hornbill (female)] [Tariktik (babae)] [Penelopides Panini]

₱13,200.00

Author: Francois Nicolas Martinet

Publisher: Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon , et al in Paris.

Year: 1770-86

Size: 23 x 18.1 cm

Reference: Sitwell: Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 pp.83+90; Anker 76; Mengel 411; Nissen IVB 158; Zimmer 104

1 in stock

Description

original hand-colour copper engraving.

RARE ornithology from ‘Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux’ [Natural History of Birds]; plate 780. With 1,008 plates (of which 973 are birds) drawn by Francois Nicholas Martinet from E.L. Daubenton’s work, printed at theL’Imprimerie Royale.

Certainly considered as the most ambitious & comprehensive bird book appearing at the time of its publication, it still ranks as one of the most important bird books from a collector’s view point.

Endemic (8 races) – fairly common. Habitat: forest.