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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
9 
A | Natural History | of | Birds. | Illustrated | With Two 
Hundred and Five [306 in 3 vols.] Copper Plates, | Curiously 
Engraven from the Life, | and Exactly Coloured by the Author, | 
Eleazar Albin. | To which are added, | Notes and Observations 
by W. Derham, D.D. | Fellow of the Royal Society. | In Two 
Volumes [3 vols.]. | Vol. I. | London : . . . mdccxxxviii. 
Collation — 3 vols. 4to. Vol. I. — title + dedication, 1 1. + Address 
to Reader 1 l.+list of subscribers 1 1. + pp. 96 + Dr. Derham’s 
Observations 1 1. + Index 1 1., with 101 pi. Vol. II. — 4 prelim. 11. + 
pp. 92 + index 1 1., with 104 pi. Vol. III. — 4 prelim. 11. +pp. 95, 
with 101 pi. Index on reverse of p. 95. 
The title to Vol. III. was reprinted two years later in some 
copies as follows : 
A | Supplement | to the | Natural History | of | Birds. | 
Illustrated | with an Hundred and One Copper Plates, | curiously 
engraven from the Life | and exactly coloured by the Author | 
Eleazar Albin. | Being the third and last volume. | London : 
| . . . | MDCCXL. 
*1737. A | Natural History | of | English Song-Birds, | And such of the 
Foreign as are usually j brought over and esteemed for their 
Singing. | To which are added, | Figures of the Cock, Hen and 
Egg, of | each Species, exactly copied from Na- | ture ; by Mr; 
Eleazar Albin : And cu- | riously Engraven on Copper. | 
[Illustrated Device.] London : | Printed and sold by A. Bettes- 
worth and C. | Hitch in Pater-noster-Row ; and S. Birt in | 
Ave-Mary-Lane, 1737. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8mo, pp. 4 un. + pp. 97 + pp. 3 Index. 
Front, and xxiii. col. pi. of birds and eggs. 
This is the 1st edit. 
Idem. 2nd edit. 1741. (Coues wrongly gives the date 1747.) 
Idem. 3rd edit. 1759. 
Idem. New edit. 1779. 
Note. — All these editions were published with coloured and 
also uncoloured plates. 
An anonymous “ Piracy ” was printed in 1754, entitled : A 
| Natural History | of | Singing Birds ; | . . . By a Lover of 
Birds. | Edinburgh : | m,dcc,liv. 
See under Anonymous. 
The above was reprinted in 1776. 
This has been sometimes cited as the 4th edit. 
Another anonymous “ Piracy ” printed in Edinburgh, and stated 
to be “ translated from the French of the Count de Buffon,” 
appeared in 1791. 
