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Subject(s)

• Animals—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Birds—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Horses—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cattle—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Illustrator

• Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704 [Browse]
• Snyders, Frans, 1579-1657 [Browse]
• Stoop, Dirck, active 1618-1686 [Browse]
• Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 [Browse]

Engraver

• Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677 [Browse]
• Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717 [Browse]
• Griffier, Jan, -1718 [Browse]
• Place, Francis, 1647-1728 [Browse]
• Vivarès, François, 1709-1780 [Browse]
• Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683 [Browse]
• Chatelain, Jean Baptiste Claude, 1710?-1771? [Browse]
• Blooteling, Abraham, 1640-1690 [Browse]
• Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Extra-illustrated copies . [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]
• Bookplates [Browse]

Notes

• Various dates for engravers and illustrators in the collection; terminal date from of Stoop's 1686 death.
• Plate #18 signed by Barlow, Griffier, and Tempest; plate #27 signed by Snyder, as well as Barlow and Tempest; plate #53 and #54 signed by Holler and Barlow; plate #66 signed by Place and Tempest; plate #72-76 signed by "Chatelin" [sic] and D. Stoop; plate #83 signed by Vivares and Berghem; plate #93 signed by Rubens, Bloteling, and Visscher.
• Cotsen copy: Incomplete, lacks plates 1-16.
• Cotsen copy: Plates from 68-104 have been numbered in ink.
• Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front pastedown: "Emily S. Cathcart... My dear mother & father's book... London, 1884."
• Cotsen copy: Small engraved armorial bookplate featuring the interlaced initials "R.F.G." facing title page, with a second cut-out of this bookplate pasted down to plate on hand-numbered leaf "100."
• Cotsen copy: Extra illustrated with 13 engravings pasted down to 11 leaves at and (hand-numbered 92-104): 92 is a hand-colored plate of a bear pursued by hounds; 93-96 are engravings after Rubens by Visscher and Bloteling; 97, showing dogs fighting over a sheep carcass, is by the same artist as that of the bear; 100 shows heads of various cattle; 101 is from a fable book; 102 is a sepia lithograph; 103 & 104 show sheep from unidentified works.

With

Bound with this is: "Divers species of birds," parts 1 & 2, by Barlow; "Birds of various species, both foreign and English" by Barlow ; "A book of horses, ech'd by Chatelin"; "A book of cattle" by Vivares and Berghem; and a collection of 13 mounted engravings at end.

Binding note

• Half leather with marbled paper-covered boards.
• Cotsen copy: Covers with several paper onlays: upper with armorial crest and cut of a lion and lower with printed armorial bookplate: "Ascot Lodge, Ascot, Berks" with interlaced initials 'CES'; extra illustrated with lithograph of gentleman on horseback on front free endpaper and an engraving of a "Swallow-Tailed Falcon" on front pastedown, with an engraving of a "Baltimore Oriole" on rear pastedown.
• Cotsen copy: Rebacked and recornered in calf, with added red morocco spine label, gilt-stamped with title: "Prints."

Contents

• Animals of various species / accurately drawn by Francis Barlow
• Divers species of birds, part 1 / by Francis Barlow
• Divers species of birds, part 2 / drawn after the life in the natural attitudes by Francis Barlow
• Birds of various species, both foreign and English 2 / drawn after the life by Francis Barlow
• Book of horses / ech'd by Chatelin from the originals of Stoop-- Book of cattle / Ingrav'd by F. Vivares from the original of Berghem.

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Other title(s)

• Birds drawn after the life in their natural attitudes
• Birds & Fowles of various species
• Birds of various species

OCLC

177775709

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