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TURNER, William (ca. 1500-1568). Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis & succincta historia. Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1544.
8o (144 x 93 mm). Collation: A-K8. 80 leaves, unfoliated, K8 blank. Roman type. Late 18th-century tan boards (minor wear at extremities).
Provenance: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, with his signature on the title-page, notes on the author on front flyleaf, a few marginal markings, and lettering on spine in his hand. Blumenbach (1752-1840), a professor of medicine at Gttingen, was the father of modern anthropology and one of the first scientists to study human beings as objects of natural history; E.F.G. Herbst; by descent to Robert M. Herbst.
J.F. BLUMENBACH'S COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO BIRDS. An account of the principal bird species mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny, the book was the first ornithological treatise to contain clear descriptions of the appearance of individual species based upon the author's own experience and observations. STC locates only six copies, and only the Harvard copy in America. This count did not count include both copies in the H. Bradley Martin collection which have been the only copies to appear at auction in over 25 years.
Adams T-1163; BM/STC German p. 876; Garrison-Morton 277; McGill/Wood 605; Mullens & Swann, pp. 596-599; STC 24350.5; Stresemann, pp. 13-15; Norman 2117.
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Provenance: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, with his signature on the title-page, notes on the author on front flyleaf, a few marginal markings, and lettering on spine in his hand. Blumenbach (1752-1840), a professor of medicine at Gttingen, was the father of modern anthropology and one of the first scientists to study human beings as objects of natural history; E.F.G. Herbst; by descent to Robert M. Herbst.
J.F. BLUMENBACH'S COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO BIRDS. An account of the principal bird species mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny, the book was the first ornithological treatise to contain clear descriptions of the appearance of individual species based upon the author's own experience and observations. STC locates only six copies, and only the Harvard copy in America. This count did not count include both copies in the H. Bradley Martin collection which have been the only copies to appear at auction in over 25 years.
Adams T-1163; BM/STC German p. 876; Garrison-Morton 277; McGill/Wood 605; Mullens & Swann, pp. 596-599; STC 24350.5; Stresemann, pp. 13-15; Norman 2117.