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
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Type of record: Book
Title: 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
Other titles: Ornithologiæ libri tres; Ornithologia
Classmark: Early Science 6 1676/WIL
Creator(s): Willughby, Francis (1635-1676)
Additional creator(s): Ray, John (1627-1705) (Other); Willughby, Lady Emma (Other)
Related people: Ray, John; Willughby, Emma
Publisher: Impensis Joannis Martyn, Regiæ Societatis Typographi, ad insigne Campanæ in Cæmeterio D. Pauli
Publication city: Londini
Date(s): 1676
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [12], 307, [5] p., [79] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/252099
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016014829705181
Description
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 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.
"Errata typographica": p. [11] of 1st group.
Includes index.
Indexed in: Wing W2879.
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