F. le Vaillant's Naturgeschichte der afrikanischen Vögel

Title Variants

Alternative: Afrikanischen Vögel

Alternative: Naturgeschichte der afrikanischen Vögel

Uniform: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique

By

Le Vaillant, François, 1753-1824

Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Halle, Bey Fried. Christoph Dreyssig, [1798]

Notes

"Erstes Bändchen mit 18 Kupfern".

No more published.

Date of publication from Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums 1700-1910.

The added engraved ill. t.p. also serves as plate no. 3.

"Ostensibly based on the author's personal observations and collections in southern Africa, the book is a monument of deception. An infinity of detail is given of the habits of the various species and of the circumstances under which the specimens described or figured were secured by the author in Africa, but many of these species do not inhabit any part of that continent. ... Errors of previous authors have been perpetuated, with an added element of personality given by Levaillant who cites exact data for his supposed specimens." --J.T. Zimmer, Ayer Lib. cat., p. 391.

GV, 1700-1910, | 88, p. 1

Subjects

Africa , Birds

Call Number

QL692.A1 L65 G1798

Language

German

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61357
OCLC: 19337094
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51471603