Histoire naturelle de divers oiseaux : qui n'avoient point encore été figurez ni décrits, ou qui n'étoient que peu connus d'apres des descriptions obscures ou abrêgées sans figures, ou d'après des figures mal dessinées ...
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Histoire naturelle de divers oiseaux : qui n'avoient point encore été figurez ni décrits, ou qui n'étoient que peu connus d'apres des descriptions obscures ou abrêgées sans figures, ou d'après des figures mal dessinées ...
- by
- Edwards, George, 1694-1773, author, illustrator; Durand, David, 1680-1763, translator; Continued by (work): Edwards, George, 1694-1773. Glanures de l'histoire naturelle
- Publication date
- 1745
- Publisher
- A Londres : Imprimé pour l'auteur, au Collége des Medecins in Warwick-Lane
- Collection
- biodiversity
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Language
- English
- Volume
- Partie 1
Translation of: A natural history of birds
Translated by David Durand, a Fellow of the Royal Society (=S.R. on title page)
Added colored engraved title page: Georgii Edvardi ornithologia nova
Added general title page dated MDCCLI [1751] with title: Histoire naturelle d'oiseaux peu communs, et d'autres animaux rares & qui n'ont pas été decrits ..
Each of the four parts has a separate title page entitled 'Histoire naturelle de divers oiseaux', dated respectively 1745, 1748, 1751 and 1751, and separate register, except for part 4 which continues the register of part 3
Head- and tail-pieces; initials
Page CXXVIII is misnumbered as CXXVII; page 213 is misnumbered as 113
"Addition au précédent ouvrage, contenant quelques éclaircissemens" --Pages [1]-26, bound in following page CV in part 2
"Quelques réflexions sur les oiseaux de passage" --Pages 211-213
"Supplément à plusieurs des sujets qui sont décrits dans cet ouvrage" --Pages 214-223
"Catalogue des tous les noms d'oiseaux, animaux, &c. qui sont contenus dans les quartre parties de cette Histoire naturelle, distribués en classes selon leur genre spécifique" --Pages 225-232
"Catalogue des noms des oiseaux, animaux, &c. décrits dans les troisièmes & quatrièmes parties de cet ouvrage, en Latin & en François" --Pages 233-236
Continued by Edwards's Gleanings of natural history = Glanures de l'histoire naturelle (1758-1764), published in a parallel English and French language edition
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
English short title catalogue
Anker, Jean. Bird books and bird art
Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher
Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library
SCNHRB copy has each of the four parts of the French translation bound at the end of the volume containing the corresponding part of the English language edition, with title: A natural history of birds. London : Printed for the author, at the College of Physicians in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [i.e. 1750-1776]. Probably bound together subsequent to publication. There is only one set of hand-colored illustrations per physical volume. For the French edition, volume 1 contains [6], xxi, LII, [1] pages; volume 2 contains [5], LIII-CV, 26 pages; volume 3 contains [5], CVI-CLVII, [1] pages; volume 4 contains [3], CLVIII-CCX, 211-236 pages
SCNHRB copy of partie 1 is also bound with: (in volume 1): Robson, James. Some memoirs of the life and works of George Edwards. London : Printed for J. Robson ..., MDCCLXXVI [1776] and Linné, Carl von. A catalogue of the birds, beasts, fishes, insects, plants, &c. contained in Edwards's Natural history. London : Printed for J. Robson ..., MDCCLXXVI [1776]
SCNHRB copy has stamps: 1. (on front free endpaper): Division of Birds; 2. (on the verso of the general title page in the first part): Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jul. 26, 1905; accession number 192594 (for all 4 parts)
SCNHRB copy has modern black buckram bindings with gilt-lettered spines and gray endpapers
Translated by David Durand, a Fellow of the Royal Society (=S.R. on title page)
Added colored engraved title page: Georgii Edvardi ornithologia nova
Added general title page dated MDCCLI [1751] with title: Histoire naturelle d'oiseaux peu communs, et d'autres animaux rares & qui n'ont pas été decrits ..
Each of the four parts has a separate title page entitled 'Histoire naturelle de divers oiseaux', dated respectively 1745, 1748, 1751 and 1751, and separate register, except for part 4 which continues the register of part 3
Head- and tail-pieces; initials
Page CXXVIII is misnumbered as CXXVII; page 213 is misnumbered as 113
"Addition au précédent ouvrage, contenant quelques éclaircissemens" --Pages [1]-26, bound in following page CV in part 2
"Quelques réflexions sur les oiseaux de passage" --Pages 211-213
"Supplément à plusieurs des sujets qui sont décrits dans cet ouvrage" --Pages 214-223
"Catalogue des tous les noms d'oiseaux, animaux, &c. qui sont contenus dans les quartre parties de cette Histoire naturelle, distribués en classes selon leur genre spécifique" --Pages 225-232
"Catalogue des noms des oiseaux, animaux, &c. décrits dans les troisièmes & quatrièmes parties de cet ouvrage, en Latin & en François" --Pages 233-236
Continued by Edwards's Gleanings of natural history = Glanures de l'histoire naturelle (1758-1764), published in a parallel English and French language edition
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
English short title catalogue
Anker, Jean. Bird books and bird art
Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher
Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library
SCNHRB copy has each of the four parts of the French translation bound at the end of the volume containing the corresponding part of the English language edition, with title: A natural history of birds. London : Printed for the author, at the College of Physicians in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [i.e. 1750-1776]. Probably bound together subsequent to publication. There is only one set of hand-colored illustrations per physical volume. For the French edition, volume 1 contains [6], xxi, LII, [1] pages; volume 2 contains [5], LIII-CV, 26 pages; volume 3 contains [5], CVI-CLVII, [1] pages; volume 4 contains [3], CLVIII-CCX, 211-236 pages
SCNHRB copy of partie 1 is also bound with: (in volume 1): Robson, James. Some memoirs of the life and works of George Edwards. London : Printed for J. Robson ..., MDCCLXXVI [1776] and Linné, Carl von. A catalogue of the birds, beasts, fishes, insects, plants, &c. contained in Edwards's Natural history. London : Printed for J. Robson ..., MDCCLXXVI [1776]
SCNHRB copy has stamps: 1. (on front free endpaper): Division of Birds; 2. (on the verso of the general title page in the first part): Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jul. 26, 1905; accession number 192594 (for all 4 parts)
SCNHRB copy has modern black buckram bindings with gilt-lettered spines and gray endpapers
Notes
No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
- Addeddate
- 2018-04-30 14:45:09
- Associated-names
- Durand, David, 1680-1763, translator; Continued by (work): Edwards, George, 1694-1773. Glanures de l'histoire naturelle
- Call number
- mq1979111
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1046031347
- Foldoutcount
- 0
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- Pages
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- Possible copyright status
- Not in copyright. The BHL knows of no copyright restrictions on this item.
- Ppi
- 350
- References
- English short title catalogue T145477; Anker, Jean. Bird books and bird art, 125; Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 287; Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library pages 196-198
- Republisher_date
- 20180430171445
- Republisher_operator
- associate-daniel-euphrat@archive.org
- Scandate
- 20180430145431
- Scanner
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- Scanningcenter
- washingtondc
- Title_id
- 1091355
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 25163560
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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