Zoology - Depictions of birds - 6 sheets, old... Lot 1166

Zoology - Depictions of birds - 6 sheets, old colored engravings by Johann Michael Seligmann (1720 - 1762, German illustrator, art dealer, draughtsman and engraver; was active in Nuremberg) after George Eduards (1694 - 1773, English naturalist and ornithologist; known as the "father of British ornithology"), from the "Collection of various foreign and rare birds", Nuremberg 1749-1776; including: 1x "Der kleinste Neuntöder" (Tab. V); 1x "Die kleine Falkeneule" (Tab. XIX); 1x "Die Henne des Fasanenpfauen aus China" (Tab. XXXIII); 1x "Das kleine braune Rothkehlein. Die schwarz und gelbe Meise" (Tab. LXI); 1x "Die Somerente des Catesby" (Tab. XCVII); 1x "Chinesisches Kriechentlein" (Tab. XCIX); each minimally browned / light-stained; partially minimally stained / creased; Tab. LXI slipped in passepartout and inscribed in pen; each in passepartout, frame behind glass (traces of age, unopened, approx. 45.5 x 35.5cm)