LOT 24 New Illustrations of Zoology, containing... New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects, FIRST EDITION, Printed for B. White [by William Bowyer], 1776 BROWN (PETER)
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New Illustrations of Zoology, containing... New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects, FIRST EDITION, text in English and French, 50 hand-coloured plates (42 of birds), some with plate number provided in ink in upper margin, some offsetting, contemporary green morocco gilt, spine refurbished with new gilt morocco lettering label, headband frayed [Anker 72; Fine Bird Books, p.62; Nissen IVB 151; Zimmer, p.101], 4to (290 x 225mm.), Printed for B. White [by William Bowyer], 1776
|Brown's New Illustrations, "which is a kind of supplement to Edwards' 'A natural history of birds', 1743-51... were executed from animals that had not previously been drawn in the collections belonging to Marmaduke Tunstall (12 of the figures of birds) and other private collectors... the plates (engravings coloured by hand) form the most important part of the work" (Zimmer).Provenance: Edward Powys Wheatly Cobb, 12 March 1876, inscription on front free endpaper; Frank Hammond, Birmingham, 28 October 1959.
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