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JACQUIN, Joseph Franz Elden von - Beyträge zur Ge

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Vienna: Christian Friederich Wappler, 1784. 4to (280 x 220 mm). 19 hand-colored engraved plates by J. Adam and A. Amon. Contemporary brown sheep, spine gilt in compartments, two morocco labels. Condition: occasional light spotting, binding rubbed on boards, foot of spine chipped. Provenance: Emilie Somer (early signature); Lengthy description from bookseller John Howell laid in. a fine copy of the first edition of a scarce american ornithology. Jacquin's father, the famous botanist Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin, travelled in the West Indies and Central America from 1755 through 1759. The trip resulted in the elder Jacquin's Selectarum stirpium americanarum historia (Vienna, 1763) and in the notes that his son used in compiling the present work. Jacquin's Beyträge describes thirty-two species of American birds, nineteen of which are figured on the plates. The etchings - which "are excellent for the period" (Zimmer) - are most probably after drawings by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin, executed either during his travels or from specimens at the zoological gardens at Schonbrunn. Anker p.220; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.108; Nissen IVB 466; Wood p.402; Zimmer p.320.

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