627. SPARRMAN, ANDERS.

Swedish Ornithologie with 70 drawings colored after nature. With 31 (of 68) engraved and hand-colored bird plates. Not complete. (Kongl. Tryckeriet, E. Fougt), Stockholm, 1806-(1816). Folio with the text bound in a badly worn and rubbed contemporary half-French binding. The 31 plates in slightly different formats but approx. 430 mm. x 270 mm. with margins. One board mildly brown-toned, two boards with minor stains and one board slightly narrower cut. Consistently good quality. Without the dedication sheet..(IV), 44 p. More than 44 pages of text were never published. Björn Dal, Swedish zoological literature p.105, Nissen, IV B:890, Anker 482. Rare.