Zinanni conte guiseppe (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2 parts bound in 1, 'On the Eggs and Nests of some birds' and 'a dissertation on various grasshopper species'. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 divisional pictorial titles between each class of egg plates, 22 copper engraved plates of eggs and 8 plates of grasshoppers in a separate section, pp.129 (eggs), pp.56 (grasshoppers). Bound in contemporary vellum, laid paper, minor worm trace to upper margin of first few pages, some light finger marks, occasional spotting but overall a remarkably clean copy in very good condition. In Italian. Zinanni wrote the first book entirely devoted to eggs and nests of birds. He divided the birds into three groups, raptorial land birds, other land birds and waterbirds. Each plate illustrates from one to nine eggs representing 106 species altogether. Very rare.…