Notebook Collection of Various Birds
Notebook Collection of Various Birds
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| ISBN | 9782380361643 |
| Idea Code | 250265 |
These images are from 'Collection of Various Foreign and Little-Known Birds Found in the Works of Messrs Edwards and Catesby, Depicted in Engraving and Accurately Coloured' by Johann Michael Seligmann, published in nine volumes between 1768 and 1776. Mark Catesby (1683–1749) began publishing his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands in 1731, featuring 220 plates of animals and plants. George Edwards (1694–1773), known as the 'father of British ornithology,' published A Natural History of Uncommon Birds from 1743, with 317 hand-coloured etchings. Capitalising on their success, Seligmann, an art dealer from Nuremberg, re-engraved and re-coloured the plates, adding text in German, later also in French and Dutch.
| 64 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, French/English |
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