statement of responsibility: qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages de messieurs Edwards et Catesby ; représentés en taille douce et exactement coloriés par J.M. Seligmann

Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library copy is imperfect: ptie. 1 and the title leaf for ptie. 9 are wanting; library has ptie. 2-[9] only, bound in 4 v

Text is in French; plate captions are in German, French, and Latin

"In 1749-76, there was published in Nuremberg a German translation, by G.L. Huth, of Edwards's 'A natural history of uncommon birds' and 'Gleanings of natural history' ... and Catesby's 'Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands,' combined into one work under the title of Sammlung verschiedenen [i.e. verschiedener] ausländischer und seltener Vögel. This was published in nine parts. The plates of Edwards and Catesby were re-engraved by Seligmann and some of those by Edwards further embellished by the addition of figures of plants not in the originals" --J.T. Zimmer, Ayer Lib., p. 200-201

Ptie. 1-2 were published in 1768; ptie. 3, 1770; ptie. 4, 1771; ptie. 5, 1772; ptie. 6, 1773; ptie. 7, 1774; and ptie. 8-9, 1776

Colophon of ptie. 2: De l'imprimerie de Jean Henr. Godefroy Bieling; colophon of ptie. 8: de l'imprimerie de G.P.J. Bieling

Collation: ptie. 1. [18], 52 p., plates I-L; ptie. 2. [2], 56 p., frontispiece, plates LI-CII; ptie. 3. [2], 50, [2] p., plates I-L; ptie. 4. [2], 88, [2] p., frontispiece, plates LI-CXIV; ptie. 5. [2], 52, [2] p., plates I-LII; ptie. 6. [2] 56, [2] p., plates LIII-CV; ptie. 7. [2], 58, [2] p., plates I-L; ptie. 8, 70, [2] p., plates LI-C; ptie. 9. 44 p., plates I-L

Head- and tail-pieces (some signed "CS"); engraved vignettes on t.p.'s

citation/reference: Anker, J. Bird books, 463

citation/reference: Nissen, C. Die illustrierten Vogelbücher, 858

Includes bibliographical references

Anker, J. Bird books

Nissen, C. Die illustrierten Vogelbücher

CHMRB copy is also wanting p. 3-4 of ptie. 2 and p. 13-18 of ptie. 7

CHMRB copy has bookplates: 1. Purchased by the Mary Stuart Book Fund ... Cooper Union Library; 2. (in ptie. 8-9) Robert W. Chanler bequest, June 1933. Accession nos. 8238-8241

CHMRB copy has contemporary gilt-tooled full mottled leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt

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