Details - The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick, esq. ... : in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable [i.e. suitable] to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVIII copper plates

The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick, esq

Title

The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick, esq. ... : in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable [i.e. suitable] to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVIII copper plates

Title Variants

Alternative: Willughby's ornithology

Uniform: Ornithologiae libri tres

By

Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672

Ray, John, 1627-1705
Faithorne, William, 1616-1691 , engraver.
Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698 , engraver.
Hernández, Francisco, 1517-1587

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed by A.C. for John Martyn, 1678

Notes

First published in Latin in 1676, under title: Ornithologiae libri tres.

"The appendix, pp. 385-396 ... is here credited to Franc. Hernandez." --Zimmer.

Signed engravers include: F.H. van Houe sculp.; W. Faithorne.

Title in red and black, within double ruled border.

Initials; side-notes.

Signatures: A⁴ (a)² B-3L⁴

The following pages are blank: p. [54], p. [272], p. [384], and p. [1] (3rd group).

Errors in paging.

Includes index.

Contents: (From t.p.) I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates -- II. Of the ordering of singing birds -- III. Of falconry.

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., | p. 678