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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

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Type of record: Book

Title: 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

Other titles: Ornithologiae libri tres

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Sc q/WIL

Creator(s): Willughby, Francis (1635-1672)

Additional creator(s): Ray, John (1627-1705) (Other)

Related people: Ray, John

Publisher: Printed by A.C. for J. Martyn

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1678

Language: English

Size and medium: 6 p.l., 53, [3], 55-271, [3], 273-441, [6] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286586

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002306029705181

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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 another lead between Mm4 and Nn1, with blank recto and "A table of water-fowl" on verso. The two unnumbered plates are correctly bound to precede p. 29.


Indexed in: Wing W2880.

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With armorial bookplate of John Powell Esqr. (ca. 1750?)

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