A Natural History of Birds - 4

George Edwards:

• A Natural History of Birds
• Most of which have not been figured or desribed and others very little known from obscure or too brief descriptions without figures, or from figures very ill designed
• This Part exhibits the Representations of thirty-nine Birds, engraven on thirty-seven Copper Plates, and coloured in their natural and proper colours, after curious Original Paintings
• Designed from the Life: with a full and accurate Description of each
• To which are added by way of Appendix sixteen Copper-Plates, representing the Figures of many Curious and undescribed Animals, such as Quadrupeds (both Land and Amphibious), Serpents, Fishes and Insects: the whole contianing fifty-three Copper-Plates, which is the full Number given in each of the foregoing Parts of this Work. Every Bird, Beast, etc is coloured from the original Painting, according to Nature
• Volume 4 and last

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