VOSMAER. Description d'un receuil [sic] exquis d'animaux rar - Lot 261

VOSMAER. Description d'un receuil [sic] exquis d'animaux rares, consistant en Quadrupedes, Oiseaux et Serpents, des Indes orientales et occidentales [...]. Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1767-1787, and J. B. Elwe, 1804 [-1805]. In-4, red morocco, triple cold fillet, ribbed spine decorated with the same, interior framing decorated with a double gilt fillet and fleurons at the corners, gilt edges (Gruel). Title-frontispiece and 35 finely copper-engraved plates, colored in the period, depicting various species of animals (bison, giraffe, wildebeest, flying squirrel, weasel, flying monkey, orangutan, parrot, thrush, alcyon, lizard-snake, etc.). Reunion under a general title Regnum animale of 33 fascicles published in Amsterdam between 1767 and 1805 by Arnout Vosmaer, director of the natural history cabinet and menagerie of the Prince of Orange-Nassau. A fine copy from the library of Baron de Lassus. Wet stamp at bottom of title.