Decorative
copper engravings
with depictions
of birds,
printed in colour
and originally
coloured by
hand
(colour engraving),
drawn and engraved
by
Johann Conrad
Susemihl and
his son and
brothers.
The ornithological
material and
information
he got from
natural scientists
and hunters
in Darmstadt,
one of them
was the botanist
and entomologist
Moritz Balthasar
Borckhausen.
The 126 colour
engravings were
edited as
"Teutsche
Ornithologie
oder Naturgeschichte
aller V๖gel
Teutschlands
in naturgetreuen
Abbildungen
und Beschreibungen",
published
by Moritz Balthasar
Borckhausen,
Ernst Friedrich
Lichthammer,
C.W. Bekker
& M. Lembcke,
Darmstadt 1800
- 1811.
The engravings
belong to the
finest examples
of copper engravings in
the early 19th
century.
Ref.: Nissen,
IVB 907.
Please,
click on a picture
for more information.
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