GREEN GARDEN LIZARD-Panckoucke-1789 Copper Engraving

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Lizards - 17
89
Bernard
Natural History
Copper Plate Engraved Print
SUBJECT/TOPIC:
This is an extraordinary 1789 Histoire Naturelle (Natural History) copper plate engraved print:
Corner faults - See picture - Priced accordingly
GREEN GARDEN LIZARD
Histoire Naturelle. 1. Variete du Lezard Ameiva - 2. Lezard le Large-doigts - 3. Developpement de la Fig 1.' (Natural History. Reptiles. 1. Variety of the Green garden lizard.)
From the 'Cetologie' section of 'Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique ...'. by M. L'Abbe Bonnaterre, 1789. This was part of 'Encyclopedie Methodique ou par ordre de matieres ....' published between 1782-1832 by Panckoucke.
Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752-1804) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique.  He composed an extensive text for the part on fishes and availed himself of the works of most of the earlier authors and collected drawings of more than 400 species. He copied many of the drawings by Bloch and when these were not available he took them from the works of Gronovius, Broussonet, Pennant and others.  Robert Benard (fl. 1750-1785) engraved / etched most of the plates.
Engraved by Bernard; Printed in Paris, France.
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION:
Benard original copper engraving.
CONDITION
Corner faults but still remarkable engraving
Please INSPECT PHOTO
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PUBLISHED DATE
1789
ENGRAVER/ARTIST
Copper Engraved Plate Print
IMAGE SIZE (approx):
PRINT SIZE (approx):
8.5 X 11 INCHES
IMAGE NOTE:
NOTES:
Reverse is blank. This is an
original
print, not a reproduction.
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