Systema avium
By: auctor Dr. Joannes Wagler ; pars prima
Contributors: Wharton, Henry T., former owner; Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932, former owner; Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner; Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner
Publisher: sumtibus J.G. Cottae
Published: 1827
Place of publication: Stuttgartiae; et Tubingae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Nomenclature; Birds; Classification; Ornithology
Notes: No more published.

Text, except the introductory portion, in double columns.

Includes bibliographical references.

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 659

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SCNHRB has three copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015710122) has, on the front free endpapers, both pencilled and typed bibliographical notes detailing the additional gathering of a cancelled section.

SCNHRB c. 1 has pencilled note on original 1st front free endpaper: Bought of Quaritch, London, June 1828. Henry T. Wharton [and, in ink] Bought of Carver. Hereford, Aug. 1899. Chas. W. Richmond.

SCNHRB c. 1 has ink ms. index leaf tipped-in before t.p.

SCNHRB c. 1 has ink inscription on verso of t.p.: Chas. W. Richmond Aug. 1899; stamped: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [ms. acc. no.] 289388.

SCNHRB c. 1 is bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015710163) has ink ms. index leaf tipped-in following t.p.

SCNHRB c. 2 has page nos. stamped in main text.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution [ms. acc. no.] 6695.

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in green sheepskin and pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers.

SCNHRB c. 3 (39088015710205)has bookplates of Jonathan Dwight Jr. and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker. With the Tucker pencilled collation notes on t.p.

SCNHRB c. 3 has ms. index leaf bound-in at end.

SCNHRB c. 3 bound in polished calf, triple gilt fillets at edges of boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers, stamped on front free endpaper: Bound by J. Clarke.
Table of contents: title: Descriptive catalogue of genera and species of birds; some based on descriptions by J.R. Forster in his manuscript record of specimens made during Captain Cook's second voyage, 1772-75. The work was never completed and does not include any of the species collected in the Southern Ocean.