Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés
Subtitle: a laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qui̓ls leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires
By: par M. Brisson ... ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille douce = Ornithologia, sive, Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates : cum accurata cujusque speciei descriptione, citationibus auctorum de iis tractantium, nominibus eis ab ipsis & nationibus impositis, nominibusque vulgaribus / A.D. Brisson ...
Contributors: Martinet, François Nicolas, b. 1731, engraver; Vaernewyck, former owner; Laetvaerennydt, former owner; Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner; Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner
Publisher: Ad Ripam Augustinorum, apud Cl. Joannem-Baptistam Bauche, bibliopolam, ad Insigne S. Genovesae, & S. Joannis in Deserto
Published: 1760
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: fre
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Classification; Ornithology; Zoology; Nomenclature; Birds
Other titles: Ornithologie; Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés; Ornithologia; Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates
Notes: Added engraved title pages; additional French title pages; head-and tail-pieces; initials; folded tables.

Extent: v. 1: xxiv, 526, lxxiii, [3] p., XXXVII folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 516, lxvii, [1] p., XLVI folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 734, xci, [1] p., XXXVII folded leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 576, liv, [2] p., XLVI folded leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 544, lv, [1] p., XLII folded leaves of plates; v. 6: [4], 543, [1], lxv, [3], 146, xxii, [2] p., XLVII, VI folded leaves of plates.

Engravings by François Nicolas Martinet.

Woodcut title ornaments, head- and tail-pieces; engraved head-piece, initial on dedication page.

Errata and binder's instructions at the end of each volume.

Colophon: De l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Boudet, Imprimeur du Roi.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, 69

Text in Latin and French in parallel columns.

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SCNHRB copy has bookplates of Jonathan Dwight Jr and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker. With a few pencilled Tucker collation notes.

SCNHRB copy has wood engraved ill. from unidentified journal tipped-in at beginning of t. 1.

SCNHRB copy has ms. label in each t.: Vaernewyck and ink ms. notes on verso of front free endpaper of t. 1.

SCNHRB copy has armorial bookplate of Laetvaerennydt and slips of paper with ink ms. notes pasted to recent front endpaper tipped-in to t. 1.

SCNHRB copy has [4] leaves of stencilled biographical and bibliographical notes on the author and this work tipped-in before added illustrated t.p. to t. 1.

SCNHRB copy quarter bound in recent black goatskin and green paste-paper boards, title in gilt on spine, old marbled edges and endpapers.