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Biology - Zoology - Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques. Ornithologia sive Synopsis methodica sistens Avium Divisione in Ordines, Genera, Species, ipsarumque Varietates. - Ornithologie ou Méthode contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, genres, Especes & leurs Variétés. 6 volumes and supplement in 6 volumes. With 6 identical, partly colored engraved titles, 1 engraved and colored armorial vignette, 261 (212 colored) folding engravings and 1 folding table. Paris, Bauche, 1760. 25.5 x 20 cm. Marbled leather bindings of the period, each with 2 gilt-stamped spine labels, floral gilt spine and marbled endpapers (rubbed and bumped, corners and capitals restored). First edition. - Nissen, IVB 145 - Anker 69 - Splendid bird book, the plates by F. N. Martinet mostly uncolored. The present copy, according to the doublet stamps on the titles from the library of Emperor Franz I, is colored throughout except for 7 systematic plates in volume 1 and the 42 plates of volume 5. - "Written by one of the greatest connaisseurs of birds of the time, the work deals with 1336 species in addition to 150 'varieties' distrubted over 115 genera." - Some browning and foxing, the uncolored volume 5 waterstained and somewhat spotty throughout, volume 6 with increasing waterstaining at the head from about halfway through. VAT: *
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Biology - Zoology - Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques. Ornithologia sive Synopsis methodica sistens Avium Divisione in Ordines, Genera, Species, ipsarumque Varietates. - Ornithologie ou Méthode contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, genres, Especes & leurs Variétés. 6 volumes and supplement in 6 volumes. With 6 identical, partly colored engraved titles, 1 engraved and colored armorial vignette, 261 (212 colored) folding engravings and 1 folding table. Paris, Bauche, 1760. 25.5 x 20 cm. Marbled leather bindings of the period, each with 2 gilt-stamped spine labels, floral gilt spine and marbled endpapers (rubbed and bumped, corners and capitals restored). First edition. - Nissen, IVB 145 - Anker 69 - Splendid bird book, the plates by F. N. Martinet mostly uncolored. The present copy, according to the doublet stamps on the titles from the library of Emperor Franz I, is colored throughout except for 7 systematic plates in volume 1 and the 42 plates of volume 5. - "Written by one of the greatest connaisseurs of birds of the time, the work deals with 1336 species in addition to 150 'varieties' distrubted over 115 genera." - Some browning and foxing, the uncolored volume 5 waterstained and somewhat spotty throughout, volume 6 with increasing waterstaining at the head from about halfway through. VAT: *
