[Bird prints] Seligmann, 1770

9 bird prints from: Recueil de divers Oiseaux etrangers et peu communs qui se trouvent dans les Ouvrages de Messieurs Edwards et Gatesby representés en taille douce et exactement colories par Jean Michel Seligmann. Nuremberg, heirs of Seligmann, 1770.

Folio plastic file with the title page, several text leaves and the following copper engravings with contemporary colouring: (1) Caput Phoemeopteri naturalis magnitudinis; (2) Phoenieopteris Bahamensis; (3) Pluvealis vociferus; (4) Parus uropygeo luteo; (5) Muscicapa vertice nigro; (6) Uluha Accipitri affinis; (7) Buteo cinereus; (8) Otis foemella; (9) Otis mas. All prints signed in the plate with text in Latin, German and French and with a Roman numeral.