A catalogue of the birds, beasts, fishes, insects, plants, &c. contained in Edwards's natural history in seven volumes ...
By: by Sir C. Linnaeus
Contributors: Edwards, George, 1694-1773; Robson, James, 1733-1806, publisher, bookseller
Published: 1776
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Animals; Classification; Natural history; Catalogs and collections; Birds
Other titles: Catalogue of the birds &c. with the Latin names by Linnaeus
Notes: "With their Latin [and English] names."

Publisher's advertisement for two works by Moses Harris (Harris' Aurelian, or, Natural history of English insects, and his The English Lepidoptera, or the Aurelian's pocket companion) on final page.

"N.B. It is recommended in binding the whole work, that the foregoing catalogue be placed immediately after the life and addenda, before the preface to the first volume; and the indexes to each part with the common Latin names, and the general Generical index in English, French, and Latin, to remain at each part as originally published by the Author.' --Page 15.

Signatures: [A]² B-D².

Soulsby, B.H. A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (2nd edition), 1224

Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, 311

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) volume 3, page 1136

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SCNHRB copy (H129946) is bound with part 1 of G.A. Edwards' A natural history of birds. London : Printed for the author ..., MDCCXLIII [1743, i.e. 1776; the third issue of the first edition], inserted between another bound-with item (James Robson's Some memoirs of the life and works of George Edwards. London : Printed for J. Robson, bookseller ..., MDCCLXXVI [1776]), and the preface to Edwards' A natural history of birds. Issued together? In addition, the same volume contains partie 1 of the French 1745 edition of Edwards' Natural history of birds, with the duplication of plates (containing only [6], xxi, I-LII, [1] pages); bound together subsequent to publication? Or it is possible that the French partie was included in the inventory of unsold copies that Robson acquired from Edwards and sold together with the 1776 publications).

SCNHRB copy has stamps: 1. (on front free endpaper): Division of Birds; 2. (on the verso of the title page of the first work bound in the volume): Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jul. 26, 1905; accession number 192594. There are pencilled markings next to many of the species listed.

SCNHRB copy has a modern black buckram binding with gilt-lettered spine and gray endpapers.