Hemprich and Ehrenberg | Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones avium, Berlin, 1828, green half morocco

Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones avium quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem... decas prima. Berlin: University Press, 1828 [-1833]

Folio (495 x 340mm.), 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds, original printed wrappers bound in, later green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, uncut, occasional light spotting, wrappers repaired

Hemprich and Ehrenberg travelled in Egypt, Sinai and Lebanon in 1820-1825; Hemprich died out there but Ehrenberg returned to Berlin with their notes and published their findings under both their names. This is just the ornithological section; he also issued descriptions of mammals, insects, plants and Red Sea corals.

Each letterpress description ends with a date, the final one being February 1833. The plates were by the bird artist Wilhelm Müller.

LITERATURE:

Nissen IVB 290; Zimmer, p. 204