Natural History of Parrots. (Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets).

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Sydney: Brian Chester-Imprime, 1989. Folio. Orig. cloth. Gilt. With mounted col. illust. on front cover. (xx, 80, 74, 12pp.). With col. title-vign., and 158 full-page col. plates by Jacque Barraband. Two vols. in one, facsimile of Paris 1794-1805 ed. limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 594. Fine. NOTE: Francois Le Vaillant (1753-1824) was a French naturalist and traveller. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was a French painter, arguably the best natural history artist of the time.