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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or,
Compleat [sic] Universal Display of Animated Nature...
by William Frederic Martyn
Published by Harrison and Co., London (1785-1787)
Original 225-year-old hand coloured etchings on chain-laid paper • Titles in English at bottom of page
Sheet size: approx. 9 x 14 inches (about 22.9 x 35.6 cm)
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Plate I [?] |
1. Aberdavine 2. Acontian 3. Admirable 4. White Admirable 5. Grand Admiral 6. Rear Admiral 7. Agouti 8. Albatross |
Condition issues: torn, adhered to backing paper on bottom portion, crease upper right |
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Plate II [?] |
1. Alligator 2. Amadvade 3. Anchovy 4. Angel Fish 5. Common Angler 6. Angle Shades 7. Anomia |
Condition issues: light age toning, edge/corner wear |
$50 |
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Plate III |
1. Anhima 2. Anhinga 3. Common Ant 4. Neutral Ant 5. Great Ant-Eater 6. Lesser Ant-Eater 7. Common Antelope 8. Royal Antelope 9. White-Footed Antelope |
Condition issues: light foxing, paper loss lower right corner, short tear upper right |
$50 |
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Plate IV |
1. Ant-eater fly 2. Large, or Ourang Outang 3. Pigmy Ape 4. Tufted Ape 5. Arctic Bird 6. Argentine 7. Armadillo 8. Lizard Ast. 9. Ten-rayed Ast. |
Condition issues: nothing note-worthy |
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Plate VII |
1. Little Green and Red Long-Tailed Parroquet 2. Long-Tailed Parroquet 3. Lory Parroquet 4. Rd and Blue-Headed Parroquet 5. Rose-Headed Ring Parroquet 6. Yellow-Faced Parroquet |
Condition issues: nothing note-worthy |
$75 |
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Plate VIII |
1. Blue-Winged Parroquet 2. Brown-throated Parroquet 3. Golden-Crowned Parroquet 4. Little Green and Blue Parroquet 5. Parroquet for the East Indies 6. Smallest Red and Green Parroquet |
Condition issues: light foxing |
$65 |
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Plate X |
1. Brown Baboon 2. Large Baboon 3. Lion-tailed Baboon 4. Wood Baboon 5. Babyroussa 6. Common Badger |
Condition issues: light foxing, and smudges |
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Plate XI |
1. Balance-fish 2. Balanus 3. Balearic Crane 4. Ballan 5. Barbel 6. Barbet, Red-Crowned 7. Barbet, Yellow-Crowned 8. Basse |
Condition issues: light foxing, unobtrusive smudges in margin |
$55 |
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Plate XII |
1. Great-Madagascar Bat 2. Horse-shoe Bat 3. Long-eared Bat 4. New York Bat 5. Sea Bat 6. Spectre Bat |
Condition issues: light foxing, smudges |
$55 |
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Plate XIV |
1. Golden-throated Bird of Paradise 2. King Bird of Paradise of Sonnerat 3. Violet-throated Bird of Paradise 4. American Bison 5. Small Bittern |
Condition issues: light age toning, smudges |
$55 |
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Plate XV |
1. Arabian Bustard 2. Common Bustard 3. Indian Bustard 4. Little Bustard |
Condition issues: trimmed, but ample margins |
$50 |
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Plate XVI |
1. Green-headed Bunting 2. Snow Bunting 3. Black and White Butcher-bird 4. Indian Fork-tailed Butcher-bird 5. Least Butcher-bird 6. Red-crested Butcher-bird |
Condition issues: light smudges, trimmed but ample margins |
$55 |
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Plate XVII |
1. Highland Bull 2. Bullae 3. Greater Bull-finch 4. Little Brown Bull-finch 5. North American Bull-finch 6. Bull-head 7. Armed Bull-head |
Condition issues: light smudges, trimmed but ample margins |
$55 |
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Plate XX |
1. Little Indian Buffalo 2. Musk Buffalo 3. Ash-coloured Buzzard 4. Common Buzzard 5. Moor Buzzard |
Condition issues: light toning around edges |
$55 |
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Plate XXI |
1. Wild Boar 2. Boat Bill 3. Lesser Bonana Bird 4. New Guinea Booby 5. Papou Booby 6. White-collared Booby |
Condition issues: somewhat trimmed left/right margins, very ample for framing purposes |
$75 |
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Plate XXIV |
1. Cock Blackbird 2. Red-breasted Blackbird 3. Ceylonese Black-Cap 4. Bleak 5. Crested Blenny 6. Gattorugine Blenny 7. Smooth Blenny 8. Spotted Blenny 9. Vivaparous Blenny 10. Red-bellied Blue-bird 11. Bream 12. Blind-Worm |
Condition issues: nothing significant |
$65 |
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Plate XXVI |
1. Brazilian Bittern 2. Little Brown Bittern 3. North American Bittern 4. Bivalves |
Condition issues: lightly age toned, scattered light smudges |
$55 |
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Plate XXIX |
1. Great Black Cockatoo 2. Greater Cockatoo 3. White Red-vented Cockatoo 4. White Yellow-crested Cockatoo |
Condition issues: overall age toning, light text offsetting, spotting to left of Black Cockatoo's head, smudges in lower left, faint pencil indentation between two lower birds |
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Plate XXX |
1. Crested Cardinal 2. Dominican Cardinal 3. Carp 4. Cassowary 5. Cat-fish 6. Patagonian Cavy 7. Cayopolin 8. Civet |
Condition issues: light age toning, trimmed but ample margins |
$60 |
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Plate XXXI |
1. Centipede 2. Chaffinch 3. Charr 4. Chatterer of Carolina 5. Straw-coloured Chinch 6. Tawny Chinch 7. Chub 8. Coal-fish |
Condition issues: light age toning, trimmed but ample margins |
$65 |
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Plate XXXII |
1. Balearic Cranes 2. Brown and Ash-coloured Crane 3. Common Crane 4. Hooping Crane [Whooping Crane] |
Condition issues: light age toning, smudge lower right, trimmed but ample margins, faint crease lower right corner |
$65 |
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Plate XXXIII |
1. Black and Blue Creeper 2. Black and Red Indian Creeper 3. Black and Yellow Creeper 4. Blue Creeper 5. Green Creeper 6. Lucon Creeper 7. New Zealand Creeper 8. Purple Indian Creeper |
Condition issues: light age toning, trimmed but ample margins, scattered light spots, original paint smear on upper right bird |
$70 |
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Plate XXXIV |
1. Great Spotted Cuckow 2. Green Cuckow 3. Indian Black Cuckow 4. Indian Brown and Spotted Cuckow 5. Larke Heeled Cuckow 6. Little Cuckow [Cuckoos] |
Condition issues: light age toning, trimmed but ample margins |
$70 |
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Plate XXXV |
1. Brown Indian Dove 2. Green Dove 3. Green-winged Dove 4. Long-tailed Dove 5. Transverse-striped Dove 6. Violet Red-headed Dove |
Condition issues: light age toning, trimmed but ample margins, scattered unobtrusive pinhole-sized holes in paper |
$65 |
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Plate XXXVI |
1. Lesser Cross-bill 2. Crusian 3. Speckled Curlew 4. Spotted Curucui 5. Cushew-bird 6. Cuttle-fish 7. Cypraea |
Condition issues: trimmed but ample margins |
$65 |
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Plate XXXVII |
1. Smear-dab 2. Black and Yellow Daw 3. Blue and Green Daw 4. Surinam Daw 5. Rock Day-Fly 6. White-winged Day-Fly 7. Female Moose Deer 8. Rein-Deer |
Condition issues: trimmed but ample margins, a few light smudges |
$65 |
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Plate XXXVIII |
1. Cougar 2. Coot 3. Horrid Crab 4. Indian Land Crab 5. Indian Sea Crab 6. Long-clawed Crab 7. Slender-legged Crab 8. Spider Crab 9. Crake |
Condition issues: light foxing |
$65 |
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Plate XXXIX |
1. Great Black Duck 2. Grey-headed Duck 3. Eider Duck 4. Ferruginous Duck 5. Little Black and White Duck 6. Little Brown and White Duck |
Condition issues: trimmed but ample margins, spotting in lower right |
$65 |
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Plate XLII |
1. Demoiselle of Numidia 2. Globe Diodon 3. Short Diodon 4. Northern Diver [Loon] 5. Purple-throated Diver 6. Red-throated Diver 7. Black and White Dobchick 8. North American Horned Dobchick |
Condition issues: trimmed but ample margins, some smearing, spots |
$55 |
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Plate XLIII |
1. Golden-winged Fly-catcher 2. Green Indian Fly-catcher 3. Green Black-throated Fly-catcher 4. Green Blue-headed Fly-catcher 5. Little Blue-grey Fly-catcher 6. Olive-coloured Fly-catcher 7. Yellow-breasted Fly-catcher 8. Yellow-tailed Fly-catcher 9. Yellow-vented Fly-catcher |
Condition issues: trimmed but ample margins, text offsetting |
$60 |
