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Nos Oiseaux

1886273 x 265 mm

ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with 110 coloured watercolours by Giacomelli
ONE OF 500 EX. ON TINTED PAPER
Copy with SIX ORIGINAL preparatory AQUARELLES
Beautiful binding signed Noulhac

2 800 

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FIRST EDITION Illustrated with 110 coloured watercolours by Giacomelli reproduced in photogravure, including a frontispiece, 20 hors- texte and 89 in-text.
ONE OF 500 COPIES ON TINTED PAPER from Manufactures du Marais, after 25 copies on Japon with an original watercolour, the only large paper editions.
Copy with six original watercolours Preparatory prints from the sale of Giacomelli's studio in 1976 (stamps): Tree Chaffinch, Kingfisher, Traquet, Swallow (2), Chickadees.

According to the subscription form attached to the copy, the work was sold in its entirety at a price of 300 fr for prints on tinted paper and 800 fr for prints on Japon; it was also offered in 5 quarterly issues, each sold for 60 fr.
This very luxurious book was a real publishing feat for Launette, which did not "craign[ait] that no book of this kind has yet been offered to the public.".

Beautiful binding signed Noulhac with spine decorated with floral mosaics and birds.

Paris,H. Launette & Cie,1886-1887.Large in-4, Bound,273 x 265 mm,36, pp. (218)...

Bound by Noulhac. Green morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with mosaics of stemmed flowers and gilt birds, fillets on covers, gilt head, signed. Identical lined slipcase. Case rubbed.

Bio

André Theuriet

Claude-Adhémar Theuriet

(Marly-le-Roy: 8 October 1833 -Bourg-la-Reine: 23 April 1907)

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Bio

Hector Giacomelli

(Paris: 1 April 1822 - Menton: 1 December 1904)

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