Leiden, A. Arntz, 1850. Single oblong printed leaf (32.2 x 40.2 cm) with fine original hand-colouring. In cardboard frame (35.0 x 50.0 cm).

This is plate 28 of an excessively early scientific work on the birds of Japan, being the ornithology part of Franz Philipp von Siebold's Fauna Japonica sive descriptio animalium, of which the bird volume, written by C. J. Temminck, was published between 1844 and 1850. Joseph Wolf made the first twenty plates. The artist of the others, including plate 27, the brown-headed thrush, is not recorded. This thrush occurs in Japan and adjacent parts of the temperate far east. It was first described by the famous Dutch vertebrate zoologist (chiefly ornithologist and herpetologist) Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858). Paper toned, with small imperfections at its corners, but otherwise very good. Zimmer, p. 592.