Herrn von Buffons Naturgeschichte der Vögel - Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de,; Bexon, Gabriel-Léopold-Charles-Amé,; Guéneau de Montbéliard, Philibert,; Martini, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm,; Otto, Bernhard Christian, (Bey Joachim Pauli, Buchhändler, 1808)
Translation, by Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini (v.1-6) and Bernhard Christian Otto (v.7-35), of the volumes on birds of: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. Paris and Liége, 1769, and (for later volumes) of the original edition. Paris, 1770-1783. --- Coauthors (of the volumes on birds) are Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard and Gabriel Léopold Charles Amé Bexon. --- Edited by Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini (v.1-6) and Bernhard Christian Otto (v.7-35) --- Title for v.2-24 and 29 reads: Herrn von Büffons Naturgeschichte der Vögel. --- Subtitle for v. 7-35 reads: Aus dem Französischen übersetzt, mit Anmerkungen, Zusätzen und vielen Kupfern vermehrt, durch Bernhard Christian Otto, ... Siebenter [- Fünf und dreyssigster] Band. --- Volume 2 dated 1774; v.3, 1775; v.4, 1776; v.5-6, 1777; v.7, 1781; v.8, 1782; v.9-10, 1784; v.11, 1785; v.12, 1786; v.13, 1787; v.14, 1788; v.15, 1789; v.16-18, 1790; v.19, 1792; v.20, 1793; v.21, 1794; v.22, 1795; v.23-24, 1796; v.25-27, 1797; v.28, 1798; v.29, 1800; v.30, 1802; v.31, 1804; v.32, 1806; v.33, 1807; v.34, 1808. --- Imprint v.21-35: In der Buchhandlung des Geh. Commerzien-Raths Pauli. --- Vignette on title pages. Vignette v.5 signed: "D: Chodowiecki"; vignettes v.6-7, 18, 23, 25-29 signed: "F. Gürsch sc." --- Numerous errors in paging. --- Last leaf in v.6 (chi1, p.[1-2]) folded; its format is quarto. --- Last leaf in v.8 (chi1, p.[1-2]) published in 1783, together with v.8 of: Herrn von Büffons Naturgeschichte der vierfüssigen Thiere. --- Plates mostly unnumbered; exceptions: I.-IV., V./VI., VII.-XVII.; XVIIb.; XVIII.-XLV., XLVa.; XLVI.-LIX.; LXI.-CI. (v.1-4) and 47.-48. (v.7). Plates CII.-CXCIX. (v.5-6) numbered in lists of plates, but not on the plates themselves. --- Some plates published later than corresponding text. According to Engelmann, one volume of supplementary plates was published under the title:Erste Sammlung von 36 Abbildungen der Vögel, deren Nachlieferung versprochen worden. Zum 1.-12. Bande. Berlin, 1801. Nissen reports 2 supplementary volumes. --- Number of plates reported for various copies varies; perhaps a few plates were never published; on the other hand, many additional plates, not mentioned in the enumeration of plates in each volume, have been published and are inserted at the appropriate places of the text. --- Errata (v.3: p.v-viii; v.7: p.[i]-iii; v.8: p.[1] at end; v.10: p.[i]-ii, third count; v.11: p.[1-2] at end; v.12: p.[1-4] at end; v.16: p.[7] at front, footnote; v.23: p.vii, footnotes; v.24: p.viii; v.30: p.[1] at end) --- Bookseller's advertisements (v.1: p.[7-8] at front; v.2: p.[13-16] at front; v.3: p.[253]-256; v.6: p.[1-2] at end (folded leaf); v.8: p.[1]-18, second count; v.20: p.[1-2] at end; v.23: p.viii; v.28: p.[9-10] at front) --- This translation enriched with much additional information not found in the original French text (including American birds) --- Dippel, H. Americana Germanica, | 31. --- Engelmann, W. Bib. historico-naturalis, | 387. --- Grässe | 1:568. --- Nissen, C. Illustrierte Vögelbücher, | 159.
Keywords: 1772-1802; Birds; Booksellers' catalogs; Germany