(Band 2)
This is a volume two of a natural history of birds, published in 1751 in Germany by Johann Michael Seligmann, drawing on earlier work by George Edwards and Mark Catesby and held by Heidelberg University Library. The hand-coloured plates show perched songbirds on bare branches, tree stumps and rocks beside small flowering plants and insects, with a designer taking away the clear botanical-style layouts, muted earth palette, and tidy hand-tinted detail typical of eighteenth-century natural history prints.
