Title: The Ornithology...Wherein All the Birds Hitherto Known, Being Reduced into a Method Suitable to Their Natures, are Accurately Described...To Which are Added, Three Considerable Discourses...by John Ray Author: Willughby, Francis Place London Publisher: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn Date: 1678 Description: [xii], 441, [7] pp. 77 (of 80) engraved plates, two inserted tables. (Folio) 31.7x21.2 cm. (12½x8½") later half calf and marbled boards with more recent rebacking. First English Edition. One of the most important early treatises on ornithology; first printed in Latin in 1676. Contains the first systematic classification of birds of the world. For this English edition Ray corrected the text and augmented it with three new treatises on falconry, songbirds, and the art of fowling. Nissen 991; Wing W2879 Lot Amendments Condition: Binding rubbed; lacking 3 plates (XVI or XVII and the two rare falconry plates), perhaps a dozen plates with old repairs, most small but a few sizable, closely trimmed; some foxing, a few ink notes in an early hand; still very good. Item number: 228829
Title: The Ornithology...Wherein All the Birds Hitherto Known, Being Reduced into a Method Suitable to Their Natures, are Accurately Described...To Which are Added, Three Considerable Discourses...by John Ray Author: Willughby, Francis Place London Publisher: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn Date: 1678 Description: [xii], 441, [7] pp. 77 (of 80) engraved plates, two inserted tables. (Folio) 31.7x21.2 cm. (12½x8½") later half calf and marbled boards with more recent rebacking. First English Edition. One of the most important early treatises on ornithology; first printed in Latin in 1676. Contains the first systematic classification of birds of the world. For this English edition Ray corrected the text and augmented it with three new treatises on falconry, songbirds, and the art of fowling. Nissen 991; Wing W2879 Lot Amendments Condition: Binding rubbed; lacking 3 plates (XVI or XVII and the two rare falconry plates), perhaps a dozen plates with old repairs, most small but a few sizable, closely trimmed; some foxing, a few ink notes in an early hand; still very good. Item number: 228829
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