Title
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
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