A Natural History of Birds, Most of which Have Not Been Figur'd Or Describ'd (etc.): The Representations of Fifty-Nine Birds, engraven on Fifty-Two Copper Plates, and coloured in their natural and proper Colours, after curious Original Paintings, design'd from the Life: With a full and accurate Descriptions of each Birds. 3

George Edwards

Jan 1750 · Author, at the College of Physicians

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