Ornithologia svecica. I-II. Copenhagen, H. F. Popp, 1817-21. 8:o. (8),317,(1) pp. & 10 folded handcoloured engraved plates + XIV,112,(2),113-277,(1) s. & 2 folded handcoloured engraved plates.

NILSSON, SV.

Publication Date: 1817

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Two volumes in varnished half calf, slightly worn, with raised bands, richly gilt spines and red and green labels (Hedberg, Stockholm). Upper edges gilt, all other edges trimmed. Spines blotchy. Occasional minor stains. Endpaper and title loose in first volume. Closed tear in the margin on p. 43 and 135 and paper losses in the outer margin on p. 81 in the first volume. Bookplate of the Swedish naturalist and painter Gunnar Brusewitz.Friesen p. 11. Nissen Die illustrierten Vogelbücher 677. Contains, among other things, a plate depicting the apocryphal bird "Falco longipes", which Nilsson presents as a new species. In reality he had been fooled by a forgery in a collection of natural-history specimens. Despite this, the work soon secured Nilssons reputation as a zoologist and can be seen as a first draft to his "Skandinavisk fauna" [The fauna of Scandinavia]. A third and last part followed four years later. Seller Inventory # 46634A

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Title: Ornithologia svecica. I-II. Copenhagen, H. F...

Publication Date: 1817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good