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Ornithology print collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 6510

Scope and content

Four hand-colored ornithological engravings: "The Laughing Gull," Mark Catesby, from Birds of Colonial America, London 1784; "The Oyster Catcher," Mark Catesby, undated; "Paon de Mer," Count Georges Louis de Buffon, from the Natural History of Birds, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, ca. 1798; "La foulque," Count Georges Louis de Buffon from the Natural History of Birds, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, ca. 1798.