C M Sepp (6 results)

Condition: Good. Paperback, geà llustreerd met veel foto's in z/w, 4to.

Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. No inscriptions. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Original publisher's blue cloth spine, light blue paper covered boards, pictorial ornament frontcover, gilt top-edge, large 8vo: Volume I: xij, 544pp., errata & addenda. Volume II: xij, 830pp., errata & addenda. Both untrimmed. Very fine copies. Volume Werken uitgegeven door de Linschoten-Vereeniging.…

1939/2007, linnen (deel 3 met stofomslag), xii, 544; xii, 829; xxii, 888 pp., deel I iets gescheurd scharnier, deel II herbonden met behoud originele (verkleurde) band, deel 3 minimale sporen van opbergen, complete set in goede staat.

Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1770. Single sheet, large folio (54.5 x 37.8 cm). Printed surface 40.3 x 37.1 cm. Hand-coloured copper-engraved plate of Corvus frugilegus (L.) and its egg. = This plate shows a rook. A locally common bird in Europe and parts of Asia. Cornelius or Cornelis Nozeman (1720-1786) was a Dutch Remonstrant churchman and naturalist. "It was in Rotterdam that he began preparations for his great work on Nederlandsche Vogelen (Birds of the Netherlands) that was published in installments by Christiaan Sepp starting in 1770. This work, finished well after both men had died in 1829, was the first "encyclopedic" book of the birds of the Netherlands" (Wikipedia). Som light, marginal creasing, otherwise a very good, clean plate. Rare. Anker, 369; Nissen IVB, 684; Sitwell, Fine bird books, p. 129; Zimmer, p. 469.…

Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1770. Single sheet, large folio (52.3 x 35.8 cm). Printed surface 44.2 x 30.0 cm. Hand-coloured copper-engraved plate of Nycticorax nycticorax (L.) and its egg. = This plate shows the black growned night heron. It is an uncommon, elusive night bird from wetlands in Europe. Cornelius or Cornelis Nozeman (1720-1786) was a Dutch Remonstrant churchman and naturalist. "It was in Rotterdam that he began preparations for his great work on Nederlandsche Vogelen (Birds of the Netherlands) that was published in installments by Christiaan Sepp starting in 1770. This work, finished well after both men had died in 1829, was the first "encyclopedic" book of the birds of the Netherlands" (Wikipedia). A very good, clean plate. Rare. Anker, 369; Nissen IVB, 684; Sitwell, Fine bird books, p. 129; Zimmer, p. 469.…