Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie, : contenant cinquante planches enluminées d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insects, avec courtes descriptions systematiques. / Par Pierre Brown.
Peter Brown (fl.1760-1791)
Category
Books
Date
1776
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082331
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 136 p., 50 leaves of plates ; 4to. The plates are hand-coloured. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate: Robt. Carter Oriel Coll: Oxon. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Henry Gee Barnard 1839. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, Signed G.S.24 and dated 1924: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)].. Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf; marbled paper over boards; recessed cords; purple spine label (gilt lettered): 'Brown's Birds'. .
Makers and roles
Peter Brown (fl.1760-1791), author Peter Brown (fl.1760-1791), artist