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Le Geai, de la Chine. / Le Kink, de la Chine. / Le Senegali, Senegali rayem Pincon de la Chine. GROUP OF 3 HANDCOLORED BIRD ENGRAVINGS.
Martinet, Francois Nicolas (illus).
Circa 1770.
THREE engravings on laid paper, handcolored, 10 x 8 1/2 inches (plate mark) on sheets 12 1/2 x 9 inches. A few spots, light ink marks to upper right corners of two sheets (outside plate mark), pencil inscriptions to left upper margin; overall very good clean and bright condition. Finely engraved and colored images by French artist Francois-Nicolas Martinet, produced for an edition of Buffon's Historie Naturelle Generale et Particuliere (Plates 157, 617, and 622). These images were also published as Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Item #56846
Price: $475.00
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