Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou Description des Oiseaux observés dans les départements de l’Isère, de la Drôme, des Hautes-Alpes et des contrées voisines, par Hippolyte Bouteille, pharmacien. Avec la collaboration de M. de Labatie. Ouvrage contenant 300 sujets Dessinés d’après Nature, par M.V. Cassien.
Edition originale (First and only Edition). Two Volumes (complete set). Grenoble, Hippolyte Bouteille (Imprimerie Dr. F. Allier), 1843. Slim Quarto (18 cm x 26 cm). Volume I: 416 pages / Volume II: 358 pages. Including 72 lithographies by Pegeron et un grand tableau synoptique dépliant en fin d’ouvrage. Original Hardcover / Original red half leather / demi-maroquin with gilt lettering on spine. Besides some mild foxing in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The plates complete and in wonderful condition. Titlepage of Volume II with minor lesion. The plates show 300 different kind of birds in remarkable detail, after Victor Cassien, french lithographer, illustrator, painter and photographer.
[Nissen, IVB 127; Ronsil 361; Zimmer 84 f.]
Die fein lithographierten Tafeln nach Zeichnungen von Victor Cassien zeigen 300 verschiedene Arten von Raubvögeln, Reihern, Tauben, Spechten, Finken, Enten, Schwänen etc.
Louis Hippolyte Bouteille (2 January 1804, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard – 19 August 1881, Grenoble ) was a French ornithologist.
Bouteille studied pharmacy at Avignon from 1820 to 1822, then at Geneva from 1822 to 1825 then at Lyon from 1825 to 1827. He moved to Grenoble obtained pharmaceutical qualification from Faculté de Montpellier in 1833 where he practised.
A naturalist from his youth he studied insects and birds. In 1843 he published “Ornithologie du Dauphiné, ou Description des oiseaux observés dans les départements de l’Isère, de la Drôme, des Hautes-Alpes” (in two volumes). He closed his shop in 1847 when he gained the post of Conservateur at Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Grenoble fr:Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Grenoble to the detriment of Albin Crépu (1799–1859).
Bouteille supervised the construction du Muséum in the Jardin des plantes considerably enriched the collections. He founded “la Société d’acclimatation des Alpes” also the Jardin d’acclimatation de Grenoble in 1854. He was also the author of “Faune de l’Oisans in Essai descriptif de l’Oisans d’Aristide Albert (1821–1903)”. (Wikipedia)
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