naturgeschichte der voegel mitteleuropas von naumann (1 Ergebnisse)

12 volumes folio, original publisher's buckram backed cloth. Text and ILLUSTRATED WITH 449 PLATES- 439 BEING STUNNING COLOURED CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF BIRDS (some of eggs). Complete. Lightly spotted (mostly confined to margins). The revised and enlarged edition of Naumann's classic work which was first published between 1795-1817. The plates in this edition have been redrawn to show the birds in their natural habitat. A monumental work on European birds bringing together the art of the chromolithographer and the ornithologist in one opus. Bibliography- Anker 356; Nissen IVB 667.