Recueil de divers oiseaux étrangers et peu communs qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages de messieurs Edwards et Catesby répresentés en taille douce et exactement coloriés par Jean Michel Seligmann.

3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [16]-52, [2]-56, [2]-50 pp.; 145 pl. (some dampstaining and spotting at the end not really touching the plates, half title spotted).

Later sheep signed De Samblanx & J. Weckesser, gilt borders on covers, endpapers renewed, gilt inside dentelles, a.e.g. (rebacked, covers rubbed and scratched).

Superb iconography showing 145 hand-coloured plates of birds in Europe (also of a porcupine and a deer) and 1 allegorical engr. front. This French edition translated from the German counts in total 8 parts, 3 front. and 414 plates of which 371 of birds.
Ref. Anker 463. - Nissen (IVB) 858.