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Bird Books and Bird Art

An Outline of the Literary History and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology

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  • © 1938

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  1. Jean Anker
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N3-XVIII
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  2. An Outline of the Literary History and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Pictures and Records of Birds up to the Invention of Printing and the Development of the Woodcut

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 3-6

    3. The Art of Printing. Woodcuts and Engravings. Belon and the Encyclopedists

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 6-12

    4. The Progress of Engraving. The First Works Containing Ornithological Plates. Information about Fauna Given in Descriptions of Countries and in Travel Books up to the Last Quarter of the 17th Century

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 13-19

    5. Willughby and John Ray. The First Works in which Plates are Prominent. Works on Fauna and Journeys up to the Last Third of the 18th Century

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 19-29

    6. Progress in Descriptive Ornithology, Systematics and Nomenclature. Linnæus. Brisson

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 29-31

    7. Buffon and the ‚Planches Enluminées‘. The Ornithological Literature in the Last Third of the 18th Century

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 32-41

    8. A Brief Survey of the Literature and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology in the 19th and 20th Centuries

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 41-87

  3. A Catalogue of the Collection of Books Containing Plates with Figures of Birds and their Eggs Now in the University Library at Copenhagen

    1. A Catalogue of the Collection of Books Containing Plates with Figures of Birds and their Eggs Now in the University Library at Copenhagen

      • Jean Anker
      Pages 89-215

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 217-251
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bird Books and Bird Art

  • Book Subtitle: An Outline of the Literary History and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology

  • Authors: Jean Anker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7983-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1938

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7983-6Published: 14 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography

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