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BROWN (PETER)
New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects, FIRST EDITION, [William Bowyer for] B. White, 1776

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BROWN (PETER)

New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects, FIRST EDITION, titles and text printed in English and French, 50 hand-coloured engraved plates (approximately half with a neat plate numeral in ink), modern calf [Nissen IVB 151; Anker 72; Fine Bird Books, p.62; Zimmer, p.101], 4to, [William Bowyer for] B. White, 1776

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The fine plates are mostly based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall and Thomas Pennant (who was also responsible for most of the text). Forty-two of the plates depict birds, 5 mammals, 2 insects and one an amphibian.

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