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L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux : avec leurs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel
Belon, Pierre (1517?-1564); Prévost, Benoît (1562)
1555
Colophon contains statement: Imprime a Paris par Benoist Preuost... 1555. Each part except the first has a separate t.p: Book 2. La nature des oyseaux vivants de rapine, tant de iour que de nuict. -...
Francisci Willughbeii de Middleton in agro Warwicensi, Armigeri, e Regia Societate, Ornithologiæ libri tres : In quibus aves omnes hactenus cognitæ in methodum naturis suis convenientem redactæ accuratè describuntur, Descriptiones iconibus elegantissimis & vivarum avium simillimis, Æri incisis illustrantur
Willughby, Francis (1635-1676); Ray, John (1627-1705); Willughby, Lady Emma
1676
Title in black and red; within lined border. Title vignette. "The cornerstone of modern systematic ornithology, being the first book on the classification of birds without respect to geographical ...
A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original, in two alphabetical catalogues : the one of such as are proper to the northern, the other to the southern counties : with catalogues of English birds and fishes : and an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England
Ray, John (1627-1705)
1674
First edition. Errors in pagination.
The ornithology of Francis Willughby : In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by.... LXXVIII copper plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry
Willughby, Francis (1635-1672); Ray, John (1627-1705)
1678
Title in red and black. As in the copy described by Keynes (John Ray: a bibliography, 39), a leaf has been inserted between H3 and H4, with blank recto and "A table of land fowl" on verso, and anoth...