Femelle du Calao, de I’Isle Panay [Visayan Tarictic Hornbill (Female)]

Description

original hand-colour copper engraving.

RARE ornithology from ‘Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux’, plate 781. With 1,008 plates (of which 973 are birds) drawn by Francois Nicholas Martinet from E.L. Daubenton’s work, printed at theL’Imprimerie Royale.

Certainly considered as the most ambitious & comprehensive bird book appearing at the time of its publication, it still ranks as one of the most important bird books from a collector’s view point.