[ORNITHOLOGY - Louis Pierre VIEILLOT (1748-1830), French orn - Lot 43

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[ORNITHOLOGY - Louis Pierre VIEILLOT (1748-1830), French orn - Lot 43
[ORNITHOLOGY - Louis Pierre VIEILLOT (1748-1830), French ornithologist]. Comte de RIOCOUR. Set of 5 autograph manuscripts devoted to Vieillot's ornithology, from 1814 to 1820. Stamps of the Riocour collection. - 3 autograph manuscripts containing tables "des matières traitées dans les lettres de M. Vieillot", for the years 1816, 1817, 1818 and 1819. 12 pp. in-4. - autograph manuscript containing a "Table analytique des matières contenues dans les lettres de M ; vieillot" for the years 1814 and 1815. 4 pp. in-4. - autograph manuscript "Analyse des lettres de M. Vieillot" for 1820. Riocour records the contents of Vieillot's letters to him over 6 years: 1820: observations of Italian and Sardinian birds with the ornithologist Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784-1830); project for a "Faune française" with Baillon and Delamotte; information on the birds of the Ile de France; means of obtaining birds from America; Cuvier, Buffon; announcement of the publication of the manual by the zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), whom he holds in mediocre esteem, etc. To be studied. [There is an inventory entitled Catalogue des oiseaux composant le cabinet de M. le Cte de Riocour [Davis du Boys], à Aulnois (Nancy, Barbier 1829), under number S24735 at the BnF. And a catalog containing the 1763 species in the collection of Comte Antoine Nicolas François de Riocour (Imprimerie Paul Bousrez, Tours, 1889)].
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