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Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer und seltener Vogel.
Published by Nuremberg: Johann Fleischmann, 1749-1755., 1755
First Edition
Parts i-iv (of 9) in 2 volumes. Folio (15 2/8 x 9 4/8 inches). Letterpress for 204 numbered plates, vignette title-pages printed in red and black to parts i and ii, vignette title-pages to parts iii and iv (Aa2 with small restoration to margin in volume II). Engraved allegorical frontispiece to parts i and ii only. Hand-coloured folding map of "Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium" (lower portion of one fold separated) and 201 fine engraved numbered plates with magnificent hand-colour (without plates 23 in part i, and plates 49 and 50 in part iii). Contemporary mottled sheep (worn at the extremities). First edition of parts i-iv of an eventual nine published between 1749 and 1776 with a total of 473 plates. The beautiful plates are re-engraved and embellished by Seligmann and his associates after the originals by Catesby, published in his "Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands" (London: 1731-1743) or George Edwards's "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds" and its sequel "Gleanings from Natural History", published between 1743 and 1751. Seligmann was a well-known Nürnberg publisher and engraver. He most famously published Trew's magnificent 'Hortus Nitidissimis' (1753-1786), Gessner's 'Opera botanica' and Schmidel's 'Erz Stüffen'. Nissen 857.
