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Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/cf9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/e38c6673-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "9
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).")
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Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/cf9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/ec8c6673-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "9
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).")
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Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/cf9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/732d8c79-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "9
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).")
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Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/cf9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/e38c6673-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "9
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).")
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Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/cf9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/ec8c6673-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "9
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).")
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Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/cf9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/732d8c79-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "9
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
*** Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).")
Lot 9
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck., Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000
Description
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
⁂ Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).
Description
Birds.- Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret, tissue guards, foxing (but tissue guards bearing the brunt), title with large part of lower portion torn away and replaced in facsimile, hinges weak, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed, upper joint cracking, uncut, [Anker 261; Fine Bird Books, p.86; Nissen IVB 511; Ronsil 2890; Zimmer, p.356], folio, Paris, chez Mme Knip...& Garnery, 1808-11.
⁂ Probably the best and most famous monograph on pigeons and doves, the work of Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip (1781-1851), a student of the celebrated ornithological artist Jacques Barraband, and a protégée of Marie-Louise Bonaparte. Without the very rare second volume published in 1838-1843. This first volume was issued in fifteen livraisons with text by Temminck. It was originally to be entitled Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons, but Madame Knip appropriated the publication from Temminck at the ninth livraison and issued a new title. Only twelve copies of the work were approved by Temminck and these all bore the original title.
Provenance: Christopher Tower (bookplate).
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