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London: Printed for B[enjamin] White, at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, 1776. 4to. (11 3/4 x 9 inches). First edition. [A4] B-S4. [8] 1-136. 144 pp. 50 finely hand-colored engraved plates printed recto, signed "P. Brown" or "Peter Brown" with dates in plates between January and May 1775. French Title, English Title, Dedications, Prefaces, Plates I-L each with a leaf of letterpress descriptive text in French and English, List of Plates. Contemporary straight-grained green full morocco, gilt and blind paneled, six raised bands forming seven compartments on spine with gilt direct lettering in second and third compartments, gilt-ruled dentelles with foliate at corners, all edges gilt, brown endpapers Handsome first edition with 50 finely hand-colored engraved plates. A brilliant bird book with global scope: Plate VII shows the blue-headed parrot taken by Joseph Banks from Australia to England aboard Captain Cook's Endeavour. Brown's New Illustrations of Zoology, modeled on George Edwards's The Natural… Read More

London: B. White, 1776. First edition.. Spines of both volumes lightly sunned, some soiling to a few page edges in the proof copy, the fine hand-colored plates are bright and clean and very well-colored, a tight and bright set in identical bindings in near fine condition.. Pp. (8), 1-136, 50 hand-colored lithograph plates + Pp. (8), 50 monochrome lithograph plates, pp. 1-136. Early 20th century full calf leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment on a red morocco title label and with elaborate gilt decorations in the other five compartments, base of spine of each volume has gilt-lettered date of publication, 1776, the word PROOF appears in gilt on the uncolored copy at the spine base, front and rear boards with gilt decorations around the borders and with central gilt motif, lg 4to (12 x 10 inches; 310 x 252 mm). The text of both volumes in simultaneously presented in parallel in French and in English. The page edges are deckled (untrimmed) in the monochrome proof… Read More