JACQUIN, JOSEPH FRANZ EDLEN VON. - [BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES]
Beyträge zur Geschichte der Vögel. Mit ausgemahlten Kupfertafeln.
Wien, C.F. Wappler, 1784. 4to. Cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back, raised bands. Binding with a few scratches, esp. on front cover. Printed on thick paper; paper and plates very clean. (10),45 pp. and 19 fine hand-coloured plates.
¶ First edition of a scarce American ornithology. Jacquin's father, the famous botanical artist Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin, travelled in the West Indies and Central America from 1755 through 1759. The trip resulted in the elder Jacquin's Selectarum stirpium americanarum historia (Vienna, 1763) and in the notes that his son used in compiling the present work. Jacquin's Beyträge describes thirty-two species of American birds (of which several are described for the first time), nineteen of which are figured on the plates. The etchings which "are excellent for the period" (Zimmer) are most probably after drawings by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin, executed either during his travels or from specimens at the zoological gardens at Schonbrunn.
Zimmer p.320. Anker No 220. Nissen No 466.
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