Title
F. le Vaillant's Naturgeschichte der afrikanischen Vögel
Title Variants
Alternative:
Afrikanischen Vögel
Alternative:
Naturgeschichte der afrikanischen Vögel
Uniform: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique
By
Le Vaillant, François, 1753-1824
Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Halle, Bey Fried. Christoph Dreyssig, [1798]
Notes
"Erstes Bändchen mit 18 Kupfern".
No more published.
Date of publication from Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums 1700-1910.
The added engraved ill. t.p. also serves as plate no. 3.
"Ostensibly based on the author's personal observations and collections in southern Africa, the book is a monument of deception. An infinity of detail is given of the habits of the various species and of the circumstances under which the specimens described or figured were secured by the author in Africa, but many of these species do not inhabit any part of that continent. ... Errors of previous authors have been perpetuated, with an added element of personality given by Levaillant who cites exact data for his supposed specimens." --J.T. Zimmer, Ayer Lib. cat., p. 391.
GV, 1700-1910, | 88, p. 1
Subjects
Africa
,
Birds
Call Number
QL692.A1 L65 G1798
Language
German
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61357
OCLC:
19337094
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51471603
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