Ornithology
114 items found
A "Rarissima Aves" among bird magazines
A fine, large hand-coloured plate by Keulemans, showing one of Darwin's finches
The grandest bird book in the German language
Borkhausen, M. B. [Susemihl, J. C.]
Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuden Abbildungen und Beschreibungen.
Darmstadt, 1800-1817-1841. In two parts. Folio (46.3 x 31.3 cm). 132 [67; 65] colour-printed plates, in careful, original hand-colouring, with accompanying descriptive text leaves in German, and, often, also in French. Uniform polished half calf over floral-patterned, embossed boards.
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€16,500.00
A view to a kill
A not-so-ordinary rendering of a very common bird
Two great, great bustard plates
Early illustration of a notorious duck
Germans illustrating krauts
The same bird... and its nest
Two ultra-rare counterproof plates
[Manetti, F. S]
Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate. [Two counterproofs in original water colouring, of Plate 37, Falco albanella torquata, and of Plate 48, Falco vulga barletto.]
[Florence, 1776]. Two single sheets (each 47.1 x 35.8 cm). Hand-coloured and captioned.
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€2,400.00
A fine watercolour by a renowned bird artist
A fine exemple of craftmanship by the renowned taxidermist Thomas Gunn