[ORNITHOLOGY]. Baron Louis Tardif D'HAMONVILLE (1830-1899), - Lot 45

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[ORNITHOLOGY]. Baron Louis Tardif D'HAMONVILLE (1830-1899), - Lot 45
[ORNITHOLOGY]. Baron Louis Tardif D'HAMONVILLE (1830-1899), French ornithologist and malacologist. Set of 3 autograph letters signed and addressed to Comte de RIOCOUR, ornithologist and bird collector. 12 pp. in-8. Dijon and Manonville, 1857 and n.d. Correspondence devoted to their acquisitions of birds (particularly of the Bruant genus); "I have taken for you from Verreaux [ornithologist Jules Verreaux (1807- 1873)] a magnificent Phalarope" with superb skin "Monsieurs de Véze and others had never seen one, you know that it is very rare [...]". He lists the names of birds: Falco, Sylvia provincialis, Embriya, flamingos, vultures and more. He discusses his ornithological writings, the Jardin des Plantes, its "faunas", recommendations for rare birds, etc. Enclosed: - a L.A.S. from a lady [Saralta F?], addressed to Count de Riocour. Tajna [in Solvenia or Hungary?], May 20, 1880. 8 pp. in-12. Violet ink. She sends him the largest eagle she has ever seen, as soon as it is stuffed and dried. - A L.A.S. from Maidze [?] sent from Dieppe in 1818. About the ornithologist Gerbe and sending birds from the Urals. - A L.A.S. from A. Allian about a Downy Heron and a Reed-Warbler, etc. [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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