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BROWN, Peter (fl.1776-1791). New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects. London: B. White, 1776.
4° (283 x 223mm). Parallel titles and text in English and French. 50 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Brown. (Occasional light soiling to plates.) Near-contemporary diced russia, covers with wide roll-tool and fillet border in gilt and blind and central lozenge in blind, spine gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance: Richard Myddelton Biddulph, Chirk Castle (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The work is principally based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall and Thomas Pennant, but also includes plates based on drawings by the Ceylonese artist P.C. de Bevere in Java and Ceylon. It was intended as a form of supplement to George Edwards's A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Much of the text was supplied by Pennant, and the publisher was Gilbert White's brother, Benjamin. Anker 72; Fine Bird Books p. 62; Nissen IVB 151; Zimmer p. 101.
4° (283 x 223mm). Parallel titles and text in English and French. 50 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Brown. (Occasional light soiling to plates.) Near-contemporary diced russia, covers with wide roll-tool and fillet border in gilt and blind and central lozenge in blind, spine gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance: Richard Myddelton Biddulph, Chirk Castle (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The work is principally based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall and Thomas Pennant, but also includes plates based on drawings by the Ceylonese artist P.C. de Bevere in Java and Ceylon. It was intended as a form of supplement to George Edwards's A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Much of the text was supplied by Pennant, and the publisher was Gilbert White's brother, Benjamin. Anker 72; Fine Bird Books p. 62; Nissen IVB 151; Zimmer p. 101.
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