Bird Books and Bird Art: An Outline of the Literary History and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology

Front Matter....Pages N3-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Pictures and Records of Birds up to the Invention of Printing and the Development of the Woodcut....Pages 3-6
The Art of Printing. Woodcuts and Engravings. Belon and the Encyclopedists....Pages 6-12
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....Pages 13-19
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....Pages 19-29
Progress in Descriptive Ornithology, Systematics and Nomenclature. Linnæus. Brisson....Pages 29-31
Buffon and the ‚Planches Enluminées‘. The Ornithological Literature in the Last Third of the 18th Century....Pages 32-41
A Brief Survey of the Literature and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology in the 19th and 20th Centuries....Pages 41-87
A Catalogue of the Collection of Books Containing Plates with Figures of Birds and their Eggs Now in the University Library at Copenhagen....Pages 89-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-251