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Vögel.
Wien, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1865. 4to. Contemporary hcalf. Corners bumped, edges rubbed. Part of upper wrapper from the general title cut and mounted but having the htitle: ""Vögel"". Internally fine. IV,176 pp. and 6 fine chromolithographed plates of birds. (T.F. Zimmermann pinx - Lith. A. Hartinger).
The original printing of the bird-section from ""Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, Erster Band Vögel."" - Several new species are here fully decribed. - Anker: 391 - Casey A. Wood p. 515 - BMC (NH) I:p.75.
Reise der Oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befehlen des Commodore R. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. (Beschreibender Theil). 3 Bde.
Wien, Kaiserlich-königl. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1861-62. Small 4to. Bound in 3 orig. full pictorial cloth. Vol. 1 rebacked preserving orig. spine. Vol.2 with a tear in backhinge. Vol. 3 a bit loose (first inner hinge weak). Small stamp on title-pages. Lithographed tinted frontispiece. X,368VI,434IX,436 pp. Each vol. with Beilagen (42,20,7, music etc.), 34 lithographed folded maps in colour, 42 plates (mostly tinted woodcuts), profusely textillustrated with woodcuts. Internally clean and fine.
First edition. - Sabin, 77625.
