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95000 SEK

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60 000-70 000 SEK

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FINE ORNOTHOLOGICAL WORK (3). EDWARDS, GEORGE. Gleanings of Natural History, Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants, &c. Most of which have not, till now, been either Figured or Described. With Descriptions of Seventy Different Subjects, Designed, Engraved, and Coloured after Nature. I-III. London (printed for the author, at the Royal Collage of Physicians) 1758-64.

Folio (293x233 mm). Engraved portrait of George Edwards by J.S. Miller after B. Dandridge, engraved vignette on half title, 152 fine hand-coloured copper-engraved plates by and after George Edwards (complete, some slight offsetting to text, some plates numbered by hand, some minor foxing, also to text). English and French parallel explanatory text in double-column.
Contemporary panelled full calf, partly rubbed and worn on spines and edges, some inner joints partly split or starting, vol. III with upper part of spine with some damage, vol. 3 slightly different and smaller. Bookplates. 3 volumes.

Anker 126, Fine Bird Books 73, Nissen IVB 288.
Collation: (6), 108, (11), xxxv, 109-220, (8), vii, 221-347 pp.
The plates show different kinds of birds, decorated with plants, butterflies and beetles. There are also plates showing monkeys, fish, zebras, elephant etc. The Gleanings, often found with Edwards' A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, is "one of the most important of all Bird Books, both as a Fine Bird Book and as a work of Ornithology. It is still high on each list" (Fine Bird Books).
George Edwards (1694-1773), English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "Father of British Ornithology".
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Auktionsnummer:

6414

Datum:

2015-06-16