A general history of birds

Title Variants

Alternative: Latham's Birds

By

Latham, John, 1740-1837 , Index to the General history of birds.

Latham, John, 1740-1837 , General synopsis of birds.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Winchester [England], Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author : sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker ... [and 3 others], 1821-1828

Notes

An enlarged and rearranged edition of the author's A general synopsis of birds.

The Index to the general history of birds has special t.p. dated 1828.

Errors in paging.

The adjust plate count includes the following specially numbered plates: LXVII*, LXXXV*, LXXXVII*, XCVIII*, CIV*, CIV**, CVII*, CXII*, and CXXIV*.

"Directions for placing plates" found in back of each volume.

In v. 9, plate no. CLVII is wrongly numbered as CLIII.

Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, | no. 279

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, | 532 (note)

BM (Nat. hist.), | v. 3, p. 1063

Subjects

Birds , Pictorial works

Call Number

QL674 .L35

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62572
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/06012603
OCLC: 9634940
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51482392