Author: Anonymous
Title: A New System of the Natural History of Birds
Description: Edinburgh; London, Peter Hill; Thomas Cadell, 1792. Leather. A very scarce eighteenth century study on ornithology, an illustrated volume, including a chapter focusing on dodos. This is Volume II in 'A New System of the Natural History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Insects', published in three volumes. ESTC citation number N11120.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty-nine plates.Collated, lacking plates numbered II, III, VIII, IX, XIII, XVIII, XIX, XXI, and L. This volume includes three different plates numbered XXII, and has a duplicate of plate XXVIII.An impressive and very scarce work on natural history.This work was published after the incredible success of Buffon's 'Natural History', presenting an extensive study on the natural history of birds from across the globe.Perhaps of most interest in a chapter on the dodo, which became extinct around one-hundred years before this work was published - the last accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. In this work no mention of the dodo's extinction is mentioned, as it wasn't recognised they were extinct until the 19th century. This work includes an illustration of a dodo to plate XXXII. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper to the boards, with new endpapers. Externally, smart. Spine is a little faded. Light bumping to the extremities. Some light marks to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Tidemark to the head of the frontispiece, and Plate I. Neat repairs to the margins of a few pages, not affecting text. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
Keywords: A New System of the Natural History of Birds natural history birds ornithology natural history Not Stated
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Title: A New System of the Natural History of Birds
Description: Edinburgh; London, Peter Hill; Thomas Cadell, 1792. Leather. A very scarce eighteenth century study on ornithology, an illustrated volume, including a chapter focusing on dodos. This is Volume II in 'A New System of the Natural History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Insects', published in three volumes. ESTC citation number N11120.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty-nine plates.Collated, lacking plates numbered II, III, VIII, IX, XIII, XVIII, XIX, XXI, and L. This volume includes three different plates numbered XXII, and has a duplicate of plate XXVIII.An impressive and very scarce work on natural history.This work was published after the incredible success of Buffon's 'Natural History', presenting an extensive study on the natural history of birds from across the globe.Perhaps of most interest in a chapter on the dodo, which became extinct around one-hundred years before this work was published - the last accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. In this work no mention of the dodo's extinction is mentioned, as it wasn't recognised they were extinct until the 19th century. This work includes an illustration of a dodo to plate XXXII. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper to the boards, with new endpapers. Externally, smart. Spine is a little faded. Light bumping to the extremities. Some light marks to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Tidemark to the head of the frontispiece, and Plate I. Neat repairs to the margins of a few pages, not affecting text. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
Keywords: A New System of the Natural History of Birds natural history birds ornithology natural history Not Stated
Price: GBP 290.00 = appr. US$ 414.12 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 879P2
- Book number: 879P2
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