JACQUES BARRABAND (FRENCH, 1768-1809) La Perruche a front jaune, ou l’apute-juba [A brown-throated parakeet] ornithology and were printed using the

and were printed using the finest engraving techniques available

This elegant map

and the primary ship (British) is seen port side

” he said

the scholar and geographer whose extraordinary 1507 world map exists today in a single copy

JACQUES BARRABAND (FRENCH, 1768-1809) La Perruche a front jaune, ou l’apute-juba [A brown-throated parakeet] ornithology and were printed using theJACQUES BARRABAND (FRENCH, 1768 1809) La Perruche a front jaune, ou lapute juba [A brown throated parakeet] Illustration for Franois Levaillants Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, Paris, vol 1 Plate 35 (1805 06) signed Barraband. f. and numbered 35 black chalk, watercolor and gouache on wove paper Paper size: 20 1 2 x 13 7 8 in. Frame size: 24 1 4 x 17 3 4 in. Provenance: Marcel Jeanson (1885 1942); Sothebys, London, 13 December 1996, lot 74.