Schaeffer | Elementa ornithologica iconibus, 1779

SCHAEFFER, JACOB CHRISTIAN

Elementa ornithologica iconibus vivis colorbis expressis illustrata. Edition secunda. Regensburg: Breitfelt, 1779

4to (279 x 210mm.), 70 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary red morocco by Nicolas Denis Derome le jeune, Paris, with his ticket, minor repairs to binding

LITERATURE:

Anker 439; Nissen IVB 822 (both listing VIIIpp., 80pp., this copy with IVpp., 80pp.)

PROVENANCE:

Inscription to front free endpaper: "Cat: Bought July 1894. H.J.J."; Free Public Library, Wigan, blindstamps and deaccession stamp