[ORNITHOLOGY]. RIOCOUR & BECOEUR. "Notes of birds mounte - Lot 46

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[ORNITHOLOGY]. RIOCOUR & BECOEUR. "Notes of birds mounte - Lot 46
[ORNITHOLOGY]. RIOCOUR & BECOEUR. "Notes of birds mounted or supplied by Becoeur naturalist rue Richelieu N°9" and contained in cases. 1818 and n.d. 15 pp. mostly in-folio and in-4. Set of 10 handwritten lists of birds sent by Becoeur, naturaliste breveté du Roi et de la Famille Royale, to Count de Riocour, with autograph annotations and additions. One of the lists is printed and commented on by Riocour. Long apostille by Becoeur on his trip to Senegal and the orders Riaucour will place with him there, the doubloons of Comte de Riocour, etc. Enclosed: a notebook of Ornithology. 74 pp. in-4 oblong. Marbled "caillouté" paper cover. Second half of the 19th century. Very important index containing hundreds of bird species names and classification methods by Cuvier, Duméril, Linné, Lacépède, Vieillot, Latreille, etc. [There is an inventory entitled Catalogue des espèces d'oiseaux. [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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