Lot 1
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Albin, Eleazar

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Natural History of Birds. London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1738
  • paper
3 volumes (volumes 1 and 2 second issue, volume 3 first issue), 4to (282 x 223mm.), 306 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, occasional slight browning, one or two plates shaved, bindings rubbed

Provenance

Friderich Sophus Raben, signatures on titles; indistinct inkstamp on titles; H.T. Fattorini, bookplate; Madelaine Jay, bookplate

Literature

Anker 4 & 5; Nissen IVB 15; Fine Bird Books, p.54; Wood, p.184; Zimmer, p.3

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The first British bird book to be illustrated entirely with hand-coloured plates. The first two volumes were concerned mainly with British birds, while the third volume included more foreign species.