Histoire naturelle d'oiseaux peu communs : et d'autres animaux rares & qui n'ont pas ete decrits, consistant en quadrupedes, reptiles, poissons, insectes, &c. Representes sur cent dix planches en taille douce, avec une ample & exacte description de chaque figure. A laquelle on a ajout©♭ quelques reflexions sur les oiseaux de passage ; & un suppl©♭ment © plusieurs des sujets qui sont d©♭crits dans cet ouvrage. En quatre parties

Title Variants

Uniform: A natural history of uncommon birds

By

Edwards, George, 1694-1773 , author

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Londres, imprime pour l'autour [sic] au Coll©·ge-Royal des M©♭dicins, MDCCLI [1751]

Notes

Translated by M. D. of the Royal Society of London.

Each part has a separate titlepage entitled 'Histoire naturelle de divers oiseaux', dated respectively 1745, 1748, 1751 and 1751, and separate register, except for part 4 which continues the register of part 3.

Title page vignette.

Signatures: [pi℗ø] A℗đ a℗ø B-K℗ø L1 [A℗ø] B-D℗ø A℗ø b-d℗ø [a℗ø] b-f℗ø B1 B-Óþ.

Bilingual text, with English translation accompanying original French.

Subjects

18th century , Accession numbers (Provenance) , Annotations (Provenance) , Antique laid papers (Paper) , Birds , Boards (Binding) , Bookplates (Provenance) , Catchwords (Printing) , Chainlines (Paper) , Embossed stamps (Provenance) , England , Gold tooled bindings (Binding) , Illustrated works , Ink stamps (Provenance) , Lables (Provenance) , Leather bindings (Binding) , Library copies (Provenance) , Markings (Provenance) , Natural history , Pictorial works , Pre-Linnean works , Quarto format (Printing) , Release stamps (Provenance) , Scientific works , Signatures (Printing) , Watermarks (Paper) , Wire lines (Paper) , Withdrawn copies (Provenance)

Call Number

QL674.E39 H57 1751x FOLIO

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.130563