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Monographie der Papageien

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oder vollstandige Naturgeschichte aller bis jetzt bekannter Papageien mit getreuen und ausgemalten Abbildungen.

Monographie der Papageien

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Stock Code 111282

Jena and Paris, August Schmid and Treuttel and Würz, 1842-55.

Rare complete copy of one of the most magnificent parrot monographs, with 75 plates after Levaillant.

The Protestant pastor and ornithologist Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787-1864) was the father of the noted zoologist Alfred Brehm (1829-1884), the author of the animal encyclopedia Brehm's Animal Life. Brehm accumulated a collection of 15,000 birds until his death, which included samples from his son. Other notable works by Brehm include Beiträge zur Vogelkunde (1820–22), which describes 104 species of German birds in minute detail, and Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (1831) which describes 900 bird species.

'The rarest of the German works published on parrots' (Nissen).

15 parts in one vol. (complete), folio (43.6 x 27.5 cm); 75 hand-coloured or lithographed plates, some foxing to text, occasionally affecting plates, several plates slightly cropped (not affecting image); modern half burgundy morocco, gilt lettering to spine, original wrapper for part 15 bound at rear, slight rubbing to extremities, else very good.

Nissen IVB 142; Fine Bird Books 62; Wood 255 (incomplete copy).
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Monographie der Papageien

BREHM, Christian Ludwig.

Stock code: 111282

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