1626 - Naumann, (J.A.).

Naumann, (J.A.). Natural History of the Birds of Central Europe. Revised by G. Berg et al. Edited by Carl R. Hennicke. 2nd and 3rd eds. 12 volumes. Gera-Untermhaus, Fr. Eugen Köhler 1905. Folio. With numerous woodcuts in the text and 449 (439 chromolithographed) plates. Original half-leather bindings with gold-stamped spine and cover titles. Anker 356. Fine Bird Books 96. Nissen, IVB 667. Wood 487. - The standard work by the founder of Central European ornithology, Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857), son of the farmer Johann Andreas Naumann (1744–1826), who trained himself as an ornithologist, here in the expanded, newly edited final edition. - "Altogether it forms the most complete and best illustrated of any treatise on the birds of Central Europe" (Wood). - The volumes are organized as follows: I. Thrushes. II. Warblers, Timalids, Tits, and Tree Creepers. III. Larks, stilts, warblers, finches. IV. Buntings, starlings, orioles, etc. V. Birds of prey. VI. Pigeons, gallinaceous birds. VII. Ibises, flightless birds, bustards, rails, etc. VIII. Plovers, etc. IX. Sandpipers, snipes, swans, geese. X. Ducks. XI. Pelicans, etc. XII. Petrels, etc., and Appendix. - Covers somewhat rubbed in places and chipped at the joints in spots; one plate and one text page with a restored tear; some brown spots in the text and along the plate margins; a fine copy of the sought-after half-leather edition.