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ALBIN, Eleazar (c.1680-1741). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux ... augmentée de notes & de remarques curieuses, par W. Derham. The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1750.
4° (287 x 225mm). Titles in red and black, 306 hand-coloured engraved plates after Albin. (A few light spots and stains.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, red leather labels on spines (hinges somewhat worn, title-label on volume III and numbering-piece on volume I replaced). Provenance: Susan Euphemia Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton (née Beckford, 1786-1859, bookplates with monogram 'S[usan] E[uphemia] H[amilton] B[randon] & C[hatelherault]'; inscriptions 'From the Hamilton Palace Collection').
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the first book on British birds to have coloured plates. Eleazar Albin came to England from Germany in about 1707, changing his surname from Weiss. He was certainly in London in 1708 when his daughter Elizabeth was born. He earned a living by making watercolour drawings of objects in the cabinets of wealthy collectors such as Sir Hans Sloane, and many of these patrons later subscribed to the Natural History of Birds which first appeared between 1731 and 1738 with plates after Eleazar, Elizabeth and Fortinalus Albin. This copy is from the library of William Beckford's second daughter, who married Sir Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton in 1810. Anker 6; Nissen IVB 16. (3)
4° (287 x 225mm). Titles in red and black, 306 hand-coloured engraved plates after Albin. (A few light spots and stains.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, red leather labels on spines (hinges somewhat worn, title-label on volume III and numbering-piece on volume I replaced). Provenance: Susan Euphemia Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton (née Beckford, 1786-1859, bookplates with monogram 'S[usan] E[uphemia] H[amilton] B[randon] & C[hatelherault]'; inscriptions 'From the Hamilton Palace Collection').
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the first book on British birds to have coloured plates. Eleazar Albin came to England from Germany in about 1707, changing his surname from Weiss. He was certainly in London in 1708 when his daughter Elizabeth was born. He earned a living by making watercolour drawings of objects in the cabinets of wealthy collectors such as Sir Hans Sloane, and many of these patrons later subscribed to the Natural History of Birds which first appeared between 1731 and 1738 with plates after Eleazar, Elizabeth and Fortinalus Albin. This copy is from the library of William Beckford's second daughter, who married Sir Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton in 1810. Anker 6; Nissen IVB 16. (3)
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