1731 ALBIN ANTIQUE 1ST EDITION HAND COLOR COPPER PLATE BIRD SEA SWALLOW
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The Natural History of Birds Eleazar Albin Hirundo marina minor We are very pleased to offer these original engravings by Eleazar Albin from a fragment of the 1st English edition of The Natural History of Birds . This is the rarest and most highly prized of Albin�s works as it was hand coloured entirely by Albin and his daughter, Elizabeth. There were only 89 sets published. It was a monumental undertaking seen only a few times in the history of natural history works and compares with the illustration of 60 editions of The Birds of Great Britain, with their Eggs by William Lewin and his sons and the colouring of 100 copies of Birds of America by Rex Brasher. The Title Page of the publication reads, "Published by the Author Eleazar Albin, and carefully colour'd by his Daughter and Self, from the Originals, drawn from the live Birds." Albin was a German professional painter who settled in England in 1707, where he married and raised a family, changing his name from Weiss to Albin. He illustrated works on insects and spiders, earning his living by making watercolors of the collections of wealthy patrons, including Sir Hans Sloane, whose collection founded the British Museum. His work on birds was done late in his life & was the first large English work on ornithology, hand-colored by Albin and his daughter Elizabeth & published initially
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