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Wirsing, A. L. And F. C. Günther

Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vögel. Plate L. Mäasse-Geÿer.

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(Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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Wirsing, A. L. And F. C. Günther

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Nürnberg, Adam Ludwig Wirsing, [1770-]1772. Tall folio (43.0 x 26.5 cm). Engraved and contemporarily coloured plate, numbered and captioned. = A fine plate from possibly the first but certainly one of the most beautiful hand-coloured nidological works ever, and almost never found complete - even individual plates, such as this one, are rare. This plate, number 50, deals with the Mäasse-Geÿer, or the common buzzard, a bird of prey. The image is exceptionally large. The first author, Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1734-1798) was a versatile German engraver with a keen interest in natural history. The German medical doctor and naturalist (principally ornithologist) Friedrich Christian Günther (1726-1774) was responsible for the descriptive text. Uncut. With the widest possible margins. The colouring bright and accurate. Left edge a bit irregular due to former binding; tiny ink spots at the top margin, otherwise fine. Anker, 537; Nissen IVB, 1002; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, 157; Not in Zimmer.
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