L'histoire naturelle, éclaircie dans une des ses parties principales, l'ornithologie, . qui traite des oiseaux de terre, de mer et de riviere, tant de nos climats que des pay étrangers. Ouvrage traduit du Latin du Synopsis avium de Ray, augmenté d'un grand nombre de descriptions & de remarques historiques sur le caractere des oiseaux, leur industrie & leurs ruses. Par M. Salerne, ... Enrichi de trente-une figures dessinées d'après nature.
John Ray (1627-1705)
Category
Books
Date
1767
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Florence Court, County Fermanagh
NT 3130779
Summary
Bibliographic description
xij, [4], 464 p., 31 leaves of plates . ill.. . 4to.. The plates are hand-coloured. Priced "Numerous species of birds on 31. collour'd plates} Đ.s.d.2:2:0" in a perhaps eighteenth-century hand. Codes "y/02", "j j" on front free endpapers and "a p x" on rear free endpaper. Provenance: Nineteenth-century round seal armorial bookplate (untrimmed): William Willoughby Cole, 3rd earl of Enniskillen (1807-1887). Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: "Boone, bookseller, 480 Strand, near Charing Cross". Purchased from Major Iain Grahame, September 2007, for Đ8000. Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco binding; gold-tooled fillets; marbled endpapers; gold-tooled spine, 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux; green silk bookmark (in twentieth-century book box).
Makers and roles
John Ray (1627-1705) François Nicolas Martinet (1731 - 1791) François Salerne (d.1760)