Herrn von Buffons Naturgeschichte der Vögel
By: Aus dem Französischen übersetzt, mit Anmerkungen, Zusätzen, und vielen Kupfern vermehrt, durch Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini, ... Erster [- Fünf und dreyssigster] Band
Contributors: Guéneau de Montbeillard, Philibert, 1720-1785; Bexon, Gabriel Léopold Charles Amé, d1748-1784; Martini, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm, 1729-1778; Otto, Bernhard Christian, 1745-1835
Publisher: Bey Joachim Pauli, Buchhändler.
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Berlin 1772
Language: ger
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Booksellers' catalogs; Birds
Other titles: Naturgeschichte der Vögel.
Work titles: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière
Notes: Translation, by Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini (v.1-6) and Bernhard Christian Otto (v.7-35), of the volumes on birds of: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. Paris and Liége, 1769, and (for later volumes) of the original edition. Paris, 1770-1783.

Coauthors (of the volumes on birds) are Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard and Gabriel Léopold Charles Amé Bexon.

Edited by Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini (v.1-6) and Bernhard Christian Otto (v.7-35)

Title for v.2-24 and 29 reads: Herrn von Büffons Naturgeschichte der Vögel.

Subtitle for v. 7-35 reads: Aus dem Französischen übersetzt, mit Anmerkungen, Zusätzen und vielen Kupfern vermehrt, durch Bernhard Christian Otto, ... Siebenter [- Fünf und dreyssigster] Band.

Volume 2 dated 1774; v.3, 1775; v.4, 1776; v.5-6, 1777; v.7, 1781; v.8, 1782; v.9-10, 1784; v.11, 1785; v.12, 1786; v.13, 1787; v.14, 1788; v.15, 1789; v.16-18, 1790; v.19, 1792; v.20, 1793; v.21, 1794; v.22, 1795; v.23-24, 1796; v.25-27, 1797; v.28, 1798; v.29, 1800; v.30, 1802; v.31, 1804; v.32, 1806; v.33, 1807; v.34, 1808.

Imprint v.21-35: In der Buchhandlung des Geh. Commerzien-Raths Pauli.

Vignette on title pages. Vignette v.5 signed: "D: Chodowiecki"; vignettes v.6-7, 18, 23, 25-29 signed: "F. Gürsch sc."

Numerous errors in paging.

Last leaf in v.6 (chi1, p.[1-2]) folded; its format is quarto.

Last leaf in v.8 (chi1, p.[1-2]) published in 1783, together with v.8 of: Herrn von Büffons Naturgeschichte der vierfüssigen Thiere.

Plates mostly unnumbered; exceptions: I.-IV., V./VI., VII.-XVII.; XVIIb.; XVIII.-XLV., XLVa.; XLVI.-LIX.; LXI.-CI. (v.1-4) and 47.-48. (v.7). Plates CII.-CXCIX. (v.5-6) numbered in lists of plates, but not on the plates themselves.

Some plates published later than corresponding text. According to Engelmann, one volume of supplementary plates was published under the title:Erste Sammlung von 36 Abbildungen der Vögel, deren Nachlieferung versprochen worden. Zum 1.-12. Bande. Berlin, 1801. Nissen reports 2 supplementary volumes.

Number of plates reported for various copies varies; perhaps a few plates were never published; on the other hand, many additional plates, not mentioned in the enumeration of plates in each volume, have been published and are inserted at the appropriate places of the text.

Errata (v.3: p.v-viii; v.7: p.[i]-iii; v.8: p.[1] at end; v.10: p.[i]-ii, third count; v.11: p.[1-2] at end; v.12: p.[1-4] at end; v.16: p.[7] at front, footnote; v.23: p.vii, footnotes; v.24: p.viii; v.30: p.[1] at end)

Bookseller's advertisements (v.1: p.[7-8] at front; v.2: p.[13-16] at front; v.3: p.[253]-256; v.6: p.[1-2] at end (folded leaf); v.8: p.[1]-18, second count; v.20: p.[1-2] at end; v.23: p.viii; v.28: p.[9-10] at front)

This translation enriched with much additional information not found in the original French text (including American birds)

Includes bibliographical references and a partial index (v.6)

Dippel, H.  Americana Germanica, 31.

Engelmann, W.  Bib. historico-naturalis, 387.

Grässe 1:568.

Nissen, C. Illustrierte Vögelbücher, 159.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: lacks 12 plates (1 in v.8, 11 in v.33). Also, the errata leaf to v.8 (p.[1-2] at end) is lacking, but is instead bound with v.8 of the library's copy of: Herrn von Büffons Naturgeschichte der vierfüssigen Thiere. Berlin, 1783. Copy bound in contemporary paper boards. Ten plates in v.33 are represented twice. For collation by signatures and paging see the John Carter Brown Library's bibliographical file.