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Johann Michael Seligmann (1720-1762)
Recueil de divers Oiseaux etrangers et peu communs qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages de messieurs Edwards et Catesby representé en taille douce... par... Seligmann. Nuremberg: J.H.G. Bieling for the heirs of Seligmann, 1768 - 1776. 8 parts in four volumes, 2° (414 x 254mm). Half-title, 8 engraved title vignettes. 2 engraved frontispieces (?only), engraved hand-coloured folding map by Seligmann of Florida and the Bahamas, 421 hand-coloured engraved plates by Seligmann after Catesby (110) or Edwards (311). (Some generally unobtrusive worming to parts 1-6, with occasional loss of a few characters of text or occasionally touching image area of plates, paper adhering to surface of first plate in part 5.) Later half sheep, neatly bound to style (light overall scuffing to spines).
A FINE COPY OF THE RARE FRENCH EDITION OF SELIGMANN'S WORK, WITH HIS MASTERLY VERSIONS OF MARK CATESBY'S AND GEORGE EDWARDS' BIRD PLATES. Seligmann (or his heirs) published a German-text edition of this amalgamation of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands and Edwards's Natural History of Uncommon Birds and Gleanings of Natural History between 1749 and 1776 with text by Georg Leonhard Huth. The present edition includes a French translation of this text with the addition of a direct translation of Catesby's natural history. This is here issued as a supplement to part 3 of the main work with a separate title (Histoire Naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride et les isles Bahama) and a folding hand-coloured map by Seligmann. Anker records an engraved title (i.e. frontispiece) to the third part which is not present here, and it is not clear if more half-titles are required. Anker 463 (incomplete copy); Brunet V, 271; Fine Bird Books p.73; Nissen IVB 858. (4)
Recueil de divers Oiseaux etrangers et peu communs qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages de messieurs Edwards et Catesby representé en taille douce... par... Seligmann. Nuremberg: J.H.G. Bieling for the heirs of Seligmann, 1768 - 1776. 8 parts in four volumes, 2° (414 x 254mm). Half-title, 8 engraved title vignettes. 2 engraved frontispieces (?only), engraved hand-coloured folding map by Seligmann of Florida and the Bahamas, 421 hand-coloured engraved plates by Seligmann after Catesby (110) or Edwards (311). (Some generally unobtrusive worming to parts 1-6, with occasional loss of a few characters of text or occasionally touching image area of plates, paper adhering to surface of first plate in part 5.) Later half sheep, neatly bound to style (light overall scuffing to spines).
A FINE COPY OF THE RARE FRENCH EDITION OF SELIGMANN'S WORK, WITH HIS MASTERLY VERSIONS OF MARK CATESBY'S AND GEORGE EDWARDS' BIRD PLATES. Seligmann (or his heirs) published a German-text edition of this amalgamation of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands and Edwards's Natural History of Uncommon Birds and Gleanings of Natural History between 1749 and 1776 with text by Georg Leonhard Huth. The present edition includes a French translation of this text with the addition of a direct translation of Catesby's natural history. This is here issued as a supplement to part 3 of the main work with a separate title (Histoire Naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride et les isles Bahama) and a folding hand-coloured map by Seligmann. Anker records an engraved title (i.e. frontispiece) to the third part which is not present here, and it is not clear if more half-titles are required. Anker 463 (incomplete copy); Brunet V, 271; Fine Bird Books p.73; Nissen IVB 858. (4)
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