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CORNELIUS NOZEMAN 1712-1786), MARTINUS HOUTTUYN (1720-1798) and JAN CHRISTIAAN SEPP (1739-1811).
Nederlandsche Vogelen; volgens hunne huishouding, aert, en eigenschappen beschreeven. Amsterdam: Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1770-1829. 5 volumes in 2, large 2° (513 x 356mm). Letterpress titles. hand-coloured engraved additional titles and 249 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 250), including two double-page and five with folding flaps, by and after Christiaan Sepp, his son, N. Muis (vols. I-II) and W. Hendriks (vol. IV). (Lacking Falco buteo plate, number 227 in vol.V, text leaf 5A1 torn and repaired with loss to text, 5H2 torn and repaired without loss, light soiling to 10 plates and about 15 text leaves, additional title to vol.I and 3 plates shaved with slight loss to image or title.) Mid 19th-century green half morocco, spines gilt (lightly faded and slightly scuffed).
FIRST EDITION of "the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland" (Anker). The text was written by Cornelius Nozeman, a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural-history specimens, and on his death, the work was taken over by Dr. Houttuyn. When he too died, the enterprise was continued probably by the publishers with the assistance of C. J. Temminck, to whom many of the specimens featured in the last two parts of the work belonged. As well as depicting the birds themselves, many of the plates show their eggs and nests (8 of the plates are of the nest and eggs alone) whilst the text describes both the birds and any interesting notes relating to their habitat. Landwehr gives a complete list of plates and notes that the total price for the set of five volumes at the time of publication "was fl. 525 which makes it the most expensive book for sale in Holland at that period". The first part of a French edition entitled Oiseaux de Hollande was published in Amsterdam in 1778.
Anker 369; Fine Bird Books 98; Landwehr Studies in Dutch Books with Coloured Plates p. 96, and no. 145; Nissen IVB 684; cf. Wood p. 496; Zimmer p.469. (2)
Nederlandsche Vogelen; volgens hunne huishouding, aert, en eigenschappen beschreeven. Amsterdam: Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1770-1829. 5 volumes in 2, large 2° (513 x 356mm). Letterpress titles. hand-coloured engraved additional titles and 249 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 250), including two double-page and five with folding flaps, by and after Christiaan Sepp, his son, N. Muis (vols. I-II) and W. Hendriks (vol. IV). (Lacking Falco buteo plate, number 227 in vol.V, text leaf 5A1 torn and repaired with loss to text, 5H2 torn and repaired without loss, light soiling to 10 plates and about 15 text leaves, additional title to vol.I and 3 plates shaved with slight loss to image or title.) Mid 19th-century green half morocco, spines gilt (lightly faded and slightly scuffed).
FIRST EDITION of "the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland" (Anker). The text was written by Cornelius Nozeman, a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural-history specimens, and on his death, the work was taken over by Dr. Houttuyn. When he too died, the enterprise was continued probably by the publishers with the assistance of C. J. Temminck, to whom many of the specimens featured in the last two parts of the work belonged. As well as depicting the birds themselves, many of the plates show their eggs and nests (8 of the plates are of the nest and eggs alone) whilst the text describes both the birds and any interesting notes relating to their habitat. Landwehr gives a complete list of plates and notes that the total price for the set of five volumes at the time of publication "was fl. 525 which makes it the most expensive book for sale in Holland at that period". The first part of a French edition entitled Oiseaux de Hollande was published in Amsterdam in 1778.
Anker 369; Fine Bird Books 98; Landwehr Studies in Dutch Books with Coloured Plates p. 96, and no. 145; Nissen IVB 684; cf. Wood p. 496; Zimmer p.469. (2)