Louis-Marie-Auguste Boutan (1859-1934) - Lot 15

Louis-Marie-Auguste Boutan (1859-1934) Permanent scientific mission of exploration in Indo-China, comprising : Eleven fascicles of Décades zoologiques, including Oiseaux (fasc. N° 1 à 8), Reptiles (fasc. N°1) and Mammifères (fasc. N°1) and one fascicule of Décades Botaniques (fasc. N°1) Copy(ies) No. 14 of an edition of 200 (250 for Décades Botaniques) Hanoi, printer F.H. Schneider 1905-1907 The Birds volumes (1905-907) include 2 uncolored plates and 86 colored plates, after Dang-ngoc-Quan (76), Phuc (13) and others, on mounted rice paper, and 1 mounted photograph. The Reptiles volume (1906) contains 8 hand-colored plates after Dang-ngoc-Quan, on mounted rice paper (7 with photographs of diagrammatic details), and 4 photographs (mounted on 2 sheets) by Duport and others. The volume Mammifère (1906) contains 3 hand-colored plates after Dang-ngoc-Quan, on mounted rice paper, 22 photographs (mounted) by Duport and others, all on 10 sheets. Les Décades Botaniques (1906), with 10 hand-colored plates after Dang-cao-Doa, on mounted rice paper. Five colored plates are taken from the Birds volumes, and framed. In all, eleven fascicules (and one hundred and seven colored plates): complete except for volume no. 9 of Les Oiseaux, which is missing.