"Erstes Bändchen mit 18 Kupfern"

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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

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BIRDRB has 2 copies

Copy 1 [no. 39088008656258] has hand-colored plates

Copy 1 has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Richmond Collection; accession no. 246902

Copy 1 has ms. signatures on front free endpaper: Neuwied, den 8 April 1830; A. Thraeu[?] von d. 19. Sept. ..

Copy 1 signature on verso of added engraved t.p.: C.W. Richmond, July, 1919

Copy 1 has contemporary spattered light brown paperboard binding with red edges

Copy 2 [no. 39088008658239] is imperfect: the title leaf is wanting

Copy 2 has mss. notes (probably made by C.W.R.) on the front free endpaper and on the plates

Copy 2 has stamp on engraved added t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jun 13, 1917; accession no. 240090

Copy 2 has stamp on front paste-down endpaper: Oswald Weigel, Antiquariat & Auctions-Institut, Leipzig ..

Copy 2 is signed on verso of engraved added t.p.: Chas. W. Richmond, Dec. 14, 1905

Copy 2 has note card with mss. notes on species (probably by C.W.R.) laid in

Copy 2 has contemporary half-leather and green marbled-paperboard binding

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