F. le Vaillant's Naturgeschichte der afrikanischen Vögel
By: mit Anmerkungen von D. Johann Reinhold Forster
Contributors: Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798; Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932, former owner
Publisher: Bey Fried. Christoph Dreyssig
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Halle
Language: ger
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Birds
Other titles: Naturgeschichte der afrikanischen Vögel; Afrikanischen Vögel
Work titles: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique
Notes: "Erstes Bändchen mit 18 Kupfern".

No more published.

Date of publication from Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums 1700-1910.

The added engraved ill. t.p. also serves as plate no. 3.

"Ostensibly based on the author's personal observations and collections in southern Africa, the book is a monument of deception. An infinity of detail is given of the habits of the various species and of the circumstances under which the specimens described or figured were secured by the author in Africa, but many of these species do not inhabit any part of that continent. ... Errors of previous authors have been perpetuated, with an added element of personality given by Levaillant who cites exact data for his supposed specimens." --J.T. Zimmer, Ayer Lib. cat., p. 391.

GV, 1700-1910, 88, p. 1

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

BIRDRB has 2 copies.

Copy 1 [no. 39088008656258] has hand-colored plates.

Copy 1 has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Richmond Collection; accession no. 246902.

Copy 1 has ms. signatures on front free endpaper: Neuwied, den 8 April 1830; A. Thraeu[?] von d. 19. Sept. ...

Copy 1 signature on verso of added engraved t.p.: C.W. Richmond, July, 1919.

Copy 1 has contemporary spattered light brown paperboard binding with red edges.

Copy 2 [no. 39088008658239] is imperfect: the title leaf is wanting.

Copy 2 has mss. notes (probably made by C.W.R.) on the front free endpaper and on the plates.

Copy 2 has stamp on engraved added t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jun 13, 1917; accession no. 240090.

Copy 2 has stamp on front paste-down endpaper: Oswald Weigel, Antiquariat & Auctions-Institut, Leipzig ...

Copy 2 is signed on verso of engraved added t.p.: Chas. W. Richmond, Dec. 14, 1905.

Copy 2 has note card with mss. notes on species (probably by C.W.R.) laid in.

Copy 2 has contemporary half-leather and green marbled-paperboard binding.