Jacob Theodor Klein, weiland ältesten Sekretarius der Stadt Danzig ... verbesserte und vollständigere Historie der Vögel
By: herausgegeben von Gottfried Reyger ...
Contributors: Reyger, Gottfried, 1704-1788; Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932, former owner
Publisher: Bey Johann Christian Schuster
Published: 1760
Place of publication: Danzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Birds
Other titles: Verbesserte und vollständigere Historie der Vögel; Historie der Vögel
Work titles: Historiae avium prodromus
Notes: Author's German translation of his: Historiae avium prodromus.

According to Anker, there was another German ed. of 1760, with plates and edited by Friedrich Daniel Behn.

Colophon: Leipzig, Gedruckt, bey Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1760.

Woodcut title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Signatures: a-cA-2I2K².

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, 256

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088015707235) has leaf laid-in with pencilled note: Senor Don José C. Zeledon, San José Costa Rica. Presents 1 book to Dir. Birds. Stamped: Library answered Apr 4 1906.

SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on front free endpaper: JV 1766.

SCNHRB copy with contemporary ink ms. notations.

SCNHRB copy with 8 etchings of birds trimmed and tipped-in throughout; possibly from the 1750 or the other 1760 ed.?

SCNHRB copy stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [ms. acc. no.] 181664. Inscribed in ink on verso of t.p.: Chas. W. Richmond Aug. 20, 1901. Mailing label addressed to Richmond frorm Leipzig bookdealer List & Francke tipped-in at end.

SCNHRB copy half bound in sheepskin and sprinkled paper boards; title in gilt, raised bands with gilt fleurons within compartments on spine; housed in an archival cardboard box.