Accession number
PML 195720
Creator
Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672.
Published
Londini ; : Impensis Joannis Martyn, Regiæ Societatis Typographi, ad insigne Campanæ in Cæmeterio D. Pauli., MDCLXXVI. [1676]
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2011.
Notes
Title in black and red; within lined border.
Title vignette.
Signatures: [pi]² a⁴ A-C⁴ (C4+1) D-2B⁴ (2B3+1) 2C-2Q⁴.
"The cornerstone of modern systematic ornithology, being the first book on the classification of birds without respect to geographical boundaries"--Field Museum.
Text in Latin, with names of selected birds also in English and occasionally in Greek.
The main sequence of plates is numbered I-LXXVII, some plates signed by William Faithorne, William Sherwin, or Frederick Hendrick van Hove. Letterpress tables inserted facing pages 25 and 199.
Includes index.
"Errata typographica": p. [11] of 1st group.
Title vignette.
Signatures: [pi]² a⁴ A-C⁴ (C4+1) D-2B⁴ (2B3+1) 2C-2Q⁴.
"The cornerstone of modern systematic ornithology, being the first book on the classification of birds without respect to geographical boundaries"--Field Museum.
Text in Latin, with names of selected birds also in English and occasionally in Greek.
The main sequence of plates is numbered I-LXXVII, some plates signed by William Faithorne, William Sherwin, or Frederick Hendrick van Hove. Letterpress tables inserted facing pages 25 and 199.
Includes index.
"Errata typographica": p. [11] of 1st group.
Description
[12], 307, [5] p., [77] leaves of plates : ill. (mostly copperplates) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Ownership inscription of John Flamsteed on title-page, with an annotation in his hand on page 101. The annotation is dated 29 May 1693. The inscription suggests that Flamsteed purchased it for £1 10s., which is the retail price for bound copies cited by the Term catalogue for 10 February 1676. Bookplate of Vittorio Arioli.
Binding
Quarter calf.
Classification
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