[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful Set of Latham's A GENERAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, 1820s, with 193 Hand-Colored Plates

[Charles Agvent]

LATHAM, John. A GENERAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. Winchester: Jacob and Johnson 
for the Author, 1821 - 1828. First Edition. Eleven quarto (8-1/2" x 
10-3/4") volumes bound in 10 in modern half sheep leather and marbled 
boards. A comprehensive and systematic study "of every new discovery in 
ornithology," illustrated with 193 hand-colored copperplate engravings 
by the author. Latham was the first to describe and name a large number 
of Australian birds, among them the emu, and was a founding member of 
the Linnean Society in 1788. Occasional light spotting, mostly marginal, 
a few faint dampstains, light offsetting from text to plates and 
vice-versa, generally clean and bright. Sunning to spines with light 
rubbing. Near Fine, beautiful set.

Anker 277-278; Nissen 532; Wood 427; Zimmer (pp. 376-377): "A new 
edition of the author's 'General Synopsis of Birds,' 1781-85 (q.v.), 
rewritten and enlarged to include the species treated in the two 
supplements to that work as well as forms discovered since their 
publication." (#018522)        $9,000

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