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PETER BROWN (fl.1778)
New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects. London: for B.White, 1776. 4 (286 x 234mm). Parallel titles and text in English and French. 50 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Brown. (Small repaired tear to blank lower margin of first plate, slight smudging to hand-colouring of plate VIII.) Contemporary red morocco, covers with wide roll and fillet border in gilt and blind, spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat pattern made up from various small tools, g.e. (light scuffing to extremities, front inner hinge neatly repaired). Provenance: Viscount Monsel (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The work is principaly based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall, Thomas Pennant and others, but includes plates based on drawings which the Dutch governor of Ceylon, Gideon Loten, had painted from life by the Ceylonese artist P.C. de Bevere in Java and Ceylon. The title is slightly misleading as the work is largely of ornithological interest (with 42 plates of birds and 8 of other animals) and Brown intended it as a sort of supplement to George Edwards's A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Much of the text was supplied by Pennant, who had previously employed Brown for two of the plates in his British Zoology, and the work was published by Gilbert White's brother Benjamin. Brown, a Dane by birth, was also known as a flower painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1770 to 1791. Anker 72; Fine Bird Books p.62; Nissen IVB 151; Zimmer p.101.
New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects. London: for B.White, 1776. 4 (286 x 234mm). Parallel titles and text in English and French. 50 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Brown. (Small repaired tear to blank lower margin of first plate, slight smudging to hand-colouring of plate VIII.) Contemporary red morocco, covers with wide roll and fillet border in gilt and blind, spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat pattern made up from various small tools, g.e. (light scuffing to extremities, front inner hinge neatly repaired). Provenance: Viscount Monsel (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The work is principaly based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall, Thomas Pennant and others, but includes plates based on drawings which the Dutch governor of Ceylon, Gideon Loten, had painted from life by the Ceylonese artist P.C. de Bevere in Java and Ceylon. The title is slightly misleading as the work is largely of ornithological interest (with 42 plates of birds and 8 of other animals) and Brown intended it as a sort of supplement to George Edwards's A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Much of the text was supplied by Pennant, who had previously employed Brown for two of the plates in his British Zoology, and the work was published by Gilbert White's brother Benjamin. Brown, a Dane by birth, was also known as a flower painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1770 to 1791. Anker 72; Fine Bird Books p.62; Nissen IVB 151; Zimmer p.101.