Ornithologie, ou Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. À laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque Espèce, les différentes Nations, et les Noms vulgarires.
Ornithologie, ou Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. À laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque Espèce, les différentes Nations, et les Noms vulgarires.
Author
Mathurin Jacques Brisson
(French)
Artist
Francois-Nicolas Martinet
(French, 1731 - 1804)
Place of OriginParis, Cl. Jean-Baptiste Bauche
Date1760
DimensionsBook: 10 1/16 × 7 3/4 in. (25.5 × 19.7 cm)
Book (Open, plates unfolded): approx. 10 1/16 x 23 in.
Book (Open, plates unfolded): approx. 10 1/16 x 23 in.
MediumBooks with letterpress and hand-colored engravings
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund
Object number
2019.18A-F
Not on View
DescriptionSix bound volumes, quarto, each with an engraved frontispiece and fold-out hand-colored, engraved plates totaling 261 and illustrating about 500 birds. In French and Latin in parallel columns.
Published Referencescf. Paul Lawrence Faber, The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline: 1760–1850, Heidelberg, Germany, Springer Netherlands, 1982, 7–26. cf. Smithsonian Libraries, “François Nicolas Martinet”, https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/NHRareBooks/Martinet/martinetintroduction.htm. cf. Michael Walters, A Concise History of Ornithology, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2003, 54–56. cf. Valérie Chansigaud, The History of Ornithology, London, New Holland Publishers, 2009, 69–72.
Reich, Paula, Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture, 1620-1820, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2021, [exh. catalogue].
J. Felix Faulcon, imprimeur de Monseigneur l'Evêque, du Clergé & de l'Université, Poitiers, 1765
1765
about 1498-1514
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