Museum Carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves, coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, suasu et sumtibus generosissimi possessoris / exhibet Andreas Sparrman ... ; fasciculus I-[IV]
4 v., 100 leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Type:
Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Catalogs and collections
Place:
Sweden
Africa, Southern
Pacific Area
Date:
1786
1789
1786-1789
Notes:
Plates drawn by J. Carl Linnerhielm, etched by Frederik Akrel--see Nissen, Die illustrierten Vogelbücher.
Plates are hand-colored.
Each plate is followed by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
Zimmer. Ayer library, 599
Nissen, Vogel, 889
Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, 579
Also available online.
Elecresource
SCNHRB copy bound in green goatskin with gilt-roll border on covers, gilt gauffered edges; gilt-decorated spine with raised bands and red leather spine label; marbled endpapers.
