Le Vaillant,François [= François Levaillant]. — Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique. [Tome Second].
Paris, J.J. Fuchs, 1799. 203 pp. 49 handcoloured & copper-engraved plts. Raised and gilt-tooled full moroccan. - Spine-ends repaired & sl worn; worn along the edges of the spine; text slightly age-toned; some plates ocassionally spotted; one plate damaged (lower-part of plate 57 missing); bookplate on first free-endpaper.* Single volume (vol. II) of the 6-volume set. This edition is hand-coloured, thus printed in black ink and finished in water-colours and not "a la poupée"/ colour-printed. Nissen: 555.