Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés : a laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms quils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires

Title Variants

Alternative: Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés

Alternative: Ornithologia

Alternative: Ornithologie

Alternative: Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates

By

Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques, 1723-1806

Martinet, François Nicolas, 1731-1800 , engraver.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Parisiis, Ad Ripam Augustinorum, apud Cl. Joannem-Baptistam Bauche, bibliopolam, ad Insigne S. Genovesae, & S. Joannis in Deserto, 1760

Notes

Added engraved title pages; additional French title pages; head-and tail-pieces; initials; folded tables.

Extent: v. 1: xxiv, 526, lxxiii, [3] p., XXXVII folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 516, lxvii, [1] p., XLVI folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 734, xci, [1] p., XXXVII folded leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 576, liv, [2] p., XLVI folded leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 544, lv, [1] p., XLII folded leaves of plates; v. 6: [4], 543, [1], lxv, [3], 146, xxii, [2] p., XLVII, VI folded leaves of plates.

Engravings by François Nicolas Martinet.

Woodcut title ornaments, head- and tail-pieces; engraved head-piece, initial on dedication page.

Errata and binder's instructions at the end of each volume.

Colophon: De l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Boudet, Imprimeur du Roi.

Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, | 69

Text in Latin and French in parallel columns.

Subjects

Birds , Classification , Early works to 1800 , Nomenclature , Ornithology , Zoology

Call Number

QL673 .B75

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51902
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/07018338
OCLC: 9490662
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55953046