Lot 394: LATHAM, JOHN. 1740-1837.

Allgemeine Uebersicht der Voegel. Nuremburg: Weigel and Schneider, 1792-1798. 3 volumes (of 4) in 6. [12], 346, [2]; [10], [347]-738, [2]; [12], 366, [2]; [10], [369]-775, [1]; [10], 275, [1]; [6], [277]-548 pp. Illustrated with 6 hand-colored engraved titles and 135 hand-colored engraved plates. 4to (242 x 197 mm). 19th century marbled boards. Generally clean, bindings with light shelfwear.

First German edition of Latham's General Synopsis of Birds. A fourth volume was published 14 years later, but the above work is complete to 1798 with all illustrations. Includes three plates depicting Hawaiian Birds: the black-headed shrike, parrot-billed grosbeak, green creeper, and great hook-billed creeper, done from information and drawings collected on Cook's Third Voyage by William Ellis. Forbes 220.