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  • Manuel d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe; precede d'une analyse du systeme general d'ornithologie, et suivi d'une table alphabetique des especes / par C.-J. Temminck
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Manuel d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe; precede d'une analyse du systeme general d'ornithologie, et suivi d'une table alphabetique des especes / par C.-J. Temminck

Object Details

Notes
First edition published in 1815 in Amsterdam.
"Cosson, Imprimeur de l'Académie Royale de Médecine"--Verso of half title, ptie 1 & 2.
"Paris.--Imprimerie de Casimir" --Verso of half title, ptie 3.
"Edmond d'Ocagne, éditeur. Paris.--Imprimerie de Cosson" --Verso of half title, ptie 4.
Ptie 3 has imprint: Paris: Chez Edmond d'Ocagne, avril 1835.
Ptie 4 has imprint: Paris, H. Cousin; Amsterdam: Ve Legras, Imbert et cie, 1840.
Dates of publication on title pages: ptie 1, 1820-1840; ptie 2, 1820-1840; ptie 3, avril 1835; ptie 4, 1840.
Ptie 1: [4], cxv, [1], 439 pages; ptie 2: [3], [440]-950 pages; ptie 3: [4], lxxxiv, 305 pages; ptie 4: [3], [306]-691, [2] pages.
Pties 1 and 2 paged continuously; the pagination starts over with ptie 3, which is paged continuously with ptie 4.
Errata: last leaf of ptie 4.
"[T]wo parts were issued in 1820; the third part, comprising a supplement to Pt. I, appeared in 1835 and the fourth in 1840, --the latter containing the supplement to Pt. II, a bibliography to Pts. III and IV, and a table correlating the matter of the whole work." --Ayer Library catalogue.
Pties 1 and 2 were also issued in a different type-setting, with the imprint: Paris: Chez Gabriel Dufour, octobre 1820.
Illustrations by Johann Carl Werner of the species described were issued under the title Les oiseaux d'Europe, décrits part C.-J. Temminck (Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1848).
Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, page 629
Also available online.
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SCNHRB copy formerly belonged to Spencer Baird, with his stamp. Accession nos.: 124309-124312.
SCNHRB copy stamped on title pages: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Feb 9 1882 [with handwritten accession numbers] 124309-124312 [and stamped] S.F. Baird.
SCNHRB copy has occasional pencilled notations in margins.
SCNHRB copy bound in old brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers.
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
1820
1840
1820-1840
Call number
QL673 .T28 1820b
QL673.T46 1820b
Author
Temminck, C. J (Coenraad Jacob) 1778-1858
publisher
Ocagne, Edmond d'
Author
Werner, J. C (Jean Charles) active 1830-1860 Oiseaux d'Europe
former owner
Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887 DSI
printer
Imprimerie de Cosson
Imprimerie de Casimir
publisher
Ve Legras, Imbert et cie
Type
Electronic resources
Physical description
4 volumes 22 cm
Place
Europe
Title
Manuel d'ornithologie
Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe
Topic
Birds
Record ID
siris_sil_369204
Usage
CC0

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