Bidspirit auction | Bourjot Saint-Hilaire - Large-jawed Parakeet-Macaw

Bourjot Saint-Hilaire - Large-jawed Parakeet-Macaw [Perruche-Ara a grosses machoires] - This lovely originally hand-colored lithograph is from Alexandre Bourjot Saint-Hilaire's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets or Natural History of Parrots . It was published between 1835 to 1839 by F. G. Levrault in Paris and Strasbourg. Plates from this set were meant to supplement previous volumes of parrots published by Levaillant. The illustrations were done by J. C. Werner. Alexandre Bourjot Saint-Hilaire (1801-1886) was a French professor of natural history. He took the surname, Saint-Hilaire, after his father-in-law, Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, who was also an author of natural history. Paper Size: ~ 10” by 13 1/4” Paper Type or Special Features: Originally Hand-colored Lithograph