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France, n.d. (c.1878-1880) 26 loose sheets. (sheets: 280 x 192 mm) (images: c. 110 x 80 mm). -- Albert Marchand was a son of the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Marchand (1770-1850). In 1883 Albert and his brother Armand published a very rare monograph on young European birds, Les poussins des oiseaux dEurope. The book includes 150 hand-colored lithographic plates by Albert Marchand, most of which had already been published in the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie between 1863 and 1879. This scientific journal was founded in 1849 and stopped in 1879. Apparently most of the present drawings originally were planned to be published in the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, but according to its discontinuation stayed unpublished until today. Only two of the drawings have already been published in the 1878 issue of the Revue and in Les poussins des oiseaux dEurope (plates 147 and 148). Thirteen of the drawings have copied outline sketches on tracing paper, mentioning the intended plate numbe |