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Edité par Debure Père, 1767
Vendeur : Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Paris: Imprimerie de Didot for Debure Père, 1767. First edition in French. Bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt roll borders. On the spine, five pairs of raised bands. Between each pair, mosaic green morocco. Title and translator gilt to the second panel. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards, continuing to the inside dentelles. Blue silk end-papers. Green silk marking-ribbon. With a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and 30 hand-colored engraved plates. Boards scratched, with wear to the extremities. Internally quite clean, with some pigment bleed and off-setting. Damp stain from Hhh to the end, with some pigment offsetting from the endpaper. Armorial bookplate of Rudolf von Gutmann to the verso of the front free end-paper. The English naturalist John Ray (1627-1705) published his Synopsis methodica avium et piscium in 1713. Ray studied anatomy and chemistry at Cambridge and pursued a career in natural history, collaborating at times with Francis Willoughby. Ray defined the concept of the species, and paved the way for the work of Carolus Linnaeus, William Paley and Charles Darwin. François Salerne (1706-1760) was a naturalist, physician and ornithologist, who added 31 images to Ray's work. Rudolf von Gutmann (1880-1966) was an Austrian-Canadian entrepreneur and connoisseur. His large collection was sold at Sotheby's London, 2 April 1993; the present item was lot no. 78. Purchased at Christie's Paris 29 June 2022 sale of the collection of a Quai d'Orsay apartment designed by Albert Pinto, lot 163. Keynes 106; Fine Bird Books, p. 101; Nissen IVB 757; Anker 414; Cohen-de-Ricci, col. 854.