Francois Le Vaillant’s Birds
/The week’s eBook pick is the six volumes of Francois Le Valllant’s Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique published between 1796 and 1808 and available from Internet Archive. The illustrations of birds were created from his collection of skins preserved with arsenic soap that were stuffed and mounted in near lifelike positions. He was one of the first to use color plates in his books about birds and was a keen observer of bird behavior. Enjoy the sample images….and browsing the whole volumes!
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique T. 1
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique T. 2
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique T. 3
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique T. 4
