Zoology - Ornithology Schinz, Heinrich Rudolf Natural history and illustrations of the bird genera. Designed according to the latest systems for public use, and edited with consideration for the education of young people. Drawn and lithographed from nature and the most excellent sources. (= Des Thierreichs zweiter Teil.) 2 vols. with lithograph. calligraph. Title page and 144 lithograph. Plates with mostly several bird illustrations. Zurich, Brodtmann, 1830. XXXVI, 445 (1, vacant), XIII (1, vacant) pp. resp. lithograph. Title page, 114 plates. 2°. HLdr. d. Zt. with gold embossed RTit. u. ornament. R-gilt, blindstamped, marbled boards. Covers and coloured top edge. First edition of the extensive ornithologicum. - Schlenker 316.1 - Nissen, IVB 825 (names Orell & Füßli as publisher). - The high-contrast lithographs after Brodtmann's accurate drawings, mostly with several depictions of birds each. - Bindings bumped at the corners and edges, covers rubbed, the text volume occasionally slightly foxed and more heavily waterstained, the plate volume slightly waterstained in places, title page and some plates fingerstained. Overall well preserved, in a presentable binding. - Includes: Friedrich Arnold. The birds of Europe. Their natural history and way of life in freedom and captivity. Together with instructions on breeding, acclimatisation, care, including trapping and hunting methods. With 76 text illustrations and 48 (colour lithograph) plates. Stuttgart, Hoffmann, 1897. 1 p., 457 (1, errata) p. Gr.-8°. Illustr. oln. with gemust. With gilt endpapers and three pages. Red edges. - First edition. - Title page with erased owner's note, far. Owner's inscription on front pastedown and flyleaf. Front endpaper recto. - Binding rubbed in places, spine with traces of removed label, some plates slightly foxed at margins, overall in good condition. - H. R. Schinz. Natural history and illustrations of mammals. Designed according to the systems for general use. 1 vol. (text volume). Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, 1831. 1 p., IV, 4 ll., 349 p. 4°. HLdr. with gilt stamped title and red edges (scuffed, rubbed and bumped). - Second edition. - Slightly foxed, overall in good condition. Ornithology. - With lithographed calligraphic title page and 144 lithographed plates. - First edition of the extensive, richly illustrated monography on birds. - The high-contrast lithographs after Brodtmann's accurate drawings, mostly with depictions of several birds each. - Bindings bumped at the corners and edges, covers worn, text volume occasionally slightly foxed and more heavily water-stained, plate volume slightly water-stained in places, title page and some plates finger-stained. Overall well preserved, in a presentable binding. - Enclosed: Friedrich Arnold. The birds of Europe ... With 76 text illustrations and 48 (colour lithograph) plates. Stuttgart, Hoffmann, 1897. 1 leaf, 457 (1, errata) p. Gr.-8vo. Illustr. publisher's cloth. - First edition. - Title page with erased owner's remark, further owwner's inscriptions on front paste-down and front fly-leaf recto. - Binding rubbed in places, spine with traces of a removed label, some plates slightly foxed at margins, overall in good condition.