THE HISTORIA NATURALIS: DE AVIBUS - Browsing Facsimile Editions (4K / UHD)

#AntiqueScientific"The wonderful, illustrated Book of Birds was a widely disseminated bestseller of the 17th century. It represents a volume of the five-volume Historia Naturalis of John Jonston. The Polish doctor and #Renaissance man composed an encyclopedic overview for the history of animals, which was considered to be the standard work of zoology for a century. The series manifested in the years 1650–1653 in the publishing house of Matthäus Merian the Elder in Frankfurt am Main and experienced numerous translations and new editions. The success of the Historia Naturalis is particularly based on its #illustrations from the hand of Matthäus Merian the Younger that were grandiose, loving, and simultaneously claimed to be scientific. Moreover, in the volume at hand of the Historia Naturalis de Avibus – the overview work for all kinds of birds – these copperplate engravings are magnificently colored.