Recueil de divers oiseaux étrangers et peu communs
By: qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages de messieurs Edwards et Catesby ; représentés en taille douce et exactement coloriés par J.M. Seligmann
Contributors: Edwards, George, 1694-1773; Edwards, George, 1694-1773; Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749; Seligmann, Johann Michael, 1720-1762, engraver; Chanler, Robert Winthrop, 1872-1930, former owner
Publisher: Chez les Héritiers de Seligmann
Published: 1768
Place of publication: A Nuremberg
Language: fre
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Natural history; Birds; Pictorial works
Work titles: Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel
Notes: Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library copy is imperfect: ptie. 1 and the title leaf for ptie. 9 are wanting; library has ptie. 2-[9] only, bound in 4 v.

Text is in French; plate captions are in German, French, and Latin.

"In 1749-76, there was published in Nuremberg a German translation, by G.L. Huth, of Edwards's 'A natural history of uncommon birds' and 'Gleanings of natural history' ... and Catesby's 'Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands,' combined into one work under the title of Sammlung verschiedenen [i.e. verschiedener] ausländischer und seltener Vögel. This was published in nine parts. The plates of Edwards and Catesby were re-engraved by Seligmann and some of those by Edwards further embellished by the addition of figures of plants not in the originals" --J.T. Zimmer, Ayer Lib., p. 200-201.

Ptie. 1-2 were published in 1768; ptie. 3, 1770; ptie. 4, 1771; ptie. 5, 1772; ptie. 6, 1773; ptie. 7, 1774; and ptie. 8-9, 1776.

Colophon of ptie. 2: De l'imprimerie de Jean Henr. Godefroy Bieling; colophon of ptie. 8: de l'imprimerie de G.P.J. Bieling.

Collation: ptie. 1. [18], 52 p., plates I-L; ptie. 2. [2], 56 p., frontispiece, plates LI-CII; ptie. 3. [2], 50, [2] p., plates I-L; ptie. 4. [2], 88, [2] p., frontispiece, plates LI-CXIV; ptie. 5. [2], 52, [2] p., plates I-LII; ptie. 6. [2] 56, [2] p., plates LIII-CV; ptie. 7. [2], 58, [2] p., plates I-L; ptie. 8, 70, [2] p., plates LI-C; ptie. 9. 44 p., plates I-L.

Head- and tail-pieces (some signed "CS"); engraved vignettes on t.p.'s.

Includes bibliographical references.

Anker, J. Bird books, 463

Nissen, C. Die illustrierten Vogelbücher, 858

CHMRB copy is also wanting p. 3-4 of ptie. 2 and p. 13-18 of ptie. 7.

CHMRB copy has bookplates: 1. Purchased by the Mary Stuart Book Fund ... Cooper Union Library; 2. (in ptie. 8-9) Robert W. Chanler bequest, June 1933. Accession nos. 8238-8241.

CHMRB copy has contemporary gilt-tooled full mottled leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt.