(Band 6)
Volume 6 of a hand-coloured natural history of birds, engraved and coloured by Johann Michael Seligmann after George Edwards and Mark Catesby, published in 1764, probably in Germany, for naturalists and collectors. The pictures show parrots and related birds perched on bare branches or mossy stumps, each set against a plain pale ground with small plants and stones; their saturated reds, greens and blues against neutral paper offer a designer a clear model for botanical-style colour palettes and specimen plates.
