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Le Grand Toucan du Bresil No. 7

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Sale 466: Travel - Natural History - Medicine - Cartography (#466) 11/03/2011 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #62 Le Grand Toucan du Bresil No. 7

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$281.25

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Title:

Le Grand Toucan du Bresil No. 7

Author:

Barraband, Jacques

Place Published:

Paris

Date Published:

c.1801-06 - [later 19th century reprint]

Description:

Hand-finished color engraved plate. 53.5x36 cm. (21¼x14") plus margins.

Splendid print of a toucan, engraved by Perée after French zoological and botanical illustrator Jacques Barraband. From Francois Levaillant's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celles des toucans et des barbus. This is a later 19th century reprint of the original.

Condition:

A bit of marginal dampstaining and 1 small chip; very good.

Item#:

225739

Headline:

Hand-colored print of Toucan by Barraband
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