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BÉLANGER, Charles.
Voyages aux Indes-Orientales, par Le Nord de L'Europe, Les Provinces du Caucase, La Georgie, L'Armenie et La Perse... Pendant les Annees 1825 [ - ] 1829.
Charles Paulus Bélanger (1805-1881) was a French naturalist and explorer. In 1825 he was appointed director of the Pondichéry botanical gardens. Accompanying the new Governor of the French establishments in India who had left to join his post, Charles Bélanger took advantage of this long trip to collect plant samples and enrich his herbaria.
- Published
- Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1831]-1834-1838-[1846]
- References
- Nissen ZBI 288 BBI 126; Brunet I, 738; Wilson p.17 (Zoologie only noted); not in Atabey or Ghan.
- Plates
- 56
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 5001-25000
- Published
- Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1831]-1834-1838-[1846]
- Ref
- 511
FIRST EDITION, issued in parts and here presented as 6 volumes (complete, see footnote), 4to (325 x 245mm.), 113 engraved or lithographed plates, 56 hand-coloured, one engraved map, and one engraved plan, loose as issued, in 6 original printed livraison wrappers, uncut. Housed in 2 slipcases, some heavy spotting to text, some plates somewhat browned and spotted, some wrappers worn; VERY RARE. The only complete copy we have traced as sold at auction was in these rooms 27 June 1996, lot 5. The work was never completed, and the collation of this work is uncertain, but this copy satisfies the collations given by Nissen (and indeed exceeds them). The contents of this set are as follows: Historique, 2 text volumes with [2], 360; [4], 492pp. and atlas with 42 lithographed plates (mainly views), 12 hand-coloured, folding maps, and folding plan. Zoologie, text volume with xxxix, 535pp. and atlas with 40 hand-coloured engraved plates. Botanique, one volume, with 192pp. text and 31 engraved plates, 3 hand-coloured. Coloured plates in order: 1. (4 figs) Parmelie a fruit pedicelle / Parmelie granulee / Collema cilie / Rocelle de Montagne. 2. (2 figs) Tridee de Belanger / Dictyure pourpre. 3. Dawsonie de Belanger. 4. (Map) Voyage aux Indes Orientalis par le Nord de Europe. 5. Interieur d'un Harem a Tauris (Perse). 6. Khan Persan et Son Favori. Jardin de Tauris. (Perse) 7. Une Rue d'Ispahan, Trak Adjeme. (Perse) 8. Indiens de Pondichery. (Castes Diverses). Carnatie. (Indie.) 9. Instrumens de Musique (Georgie et Perse). 10. Brahme Porohita se Rendant a la Pagode. (Carnatie). (Inde.) 11. Armes Indiennes. (Indie.) 12. Camp de Kalmouks pres de Tcherkask sur le Don. (Gouvernment des Cosaques du Don.) 13. Armes et Ustensiles Divers. (Georgie et Perse.) 14. Cosaques de la Ligne en Vedette. (Gouvernment du Caucase.) 15. Georgien et Georgienne sur les hauteurs de Tiflis. (Georgie.) 16. Instrumens et Machines Aratoires (Georgie et Perse.) 17. Le Semnopitheque a Capuchon. 18. Macaque Roux-Dore. 19. Vespertilion Belanger. 20. Tupaia du Pegou. 21. La Melogale Masquee. 22. Chat a Taches de Rouille. 23. Ecureuil a Croupion Roux. 24. Spermophile Concolore. 25. Malcoha Sombre. 26. Boubou d'Isidore. 27. Pie-Grieche Diane. 28. Garrulaxe de Belanger. 29. Garrulaxe a Front Roux. 30. Martin Elegant. 31. Rouloul de Dussumier. 32. Faisan de Reynaud (Male). 33. Faisan de Reynaud (Femelle). 34. Outarde a Palettes. 35. Emyde de Belanger. Bengale. 36. Naja Kaouthia. Bengale. 37. Microcephalophis au Cou Grele. Cotes du Bengale. 38. Polyodonte Annele. 39. (2 figs) Greko a Ecailles Triedres. Bengale / Grenouille Tachee de Sang. Bengale. 40. Grenouille Brama. Indes. 41. Crapaud Eleve. Bengale. 42. (2 figs) Sphyrene Jello / Pterois a Joue en Scie. 43. (2 figs) Le Tassard Lineole / Le Stromatee Blanc. 44. Cirrhine Petite Barbe / L'Able Catla. 45. Le Bagre Exodonte / Le Chaca Lophioide. 46. (2 figs) Le Notoptere Kapirat / Le Notoptere Tachete. 47. (17 figs) Assorted Shells. 48. (14 figs) Assorted Shells. 49. (15 figs) Assorted Shells. 50. (3 figs) Scarabee de Belanger / Tete et Corselet du Scarabee / Oryetes de Martaban. 51. (9 figs) Assorted Insects. 52. (7 figs) Assorted Insects. 53. (9 figs) Assorted Insects. 54. (3 figs) Papilio Batyeles / Idea agelia / Agarista Belangerii. 55. (3 figs) Tubastree Ecarlate. Nouvelle Irlande. 56. (3 figs) Sarcophyte Lobule. Rochers du Port Praslin a la Nouvelle Irlande.
