Pp. vi, [ii], 15, 8, 8, 12, 12, 20, 6, 6, 6, 10, 10, 6, 6, 21, 15, 12, 14, 14, 12, 44, 8, 9, 6, 7, 7, 7, 10, 8, 12, 8, 22, 8, 8, with 35 full-page plates with fine contemporary hand-coloring and a hand-colored half-title page. Old one-half leather, rebacked with new leather back-strip added, over the original marbled boards with original endpapers, sm 4to. This work feature 33 species accounts of birds, mammals and reptiles, most of which were published between 1766 and 1787. These accounts were meant to introduce rare and exotic species to European community. Many species are depicted in this work for the first time. The animals studied were imported from Borneo, the Philippines, Surinam, South Africa, Japan and other regions and housed at menageries and natural cabinets in the Netherlands. Each species account includes a separate title page, description and color plate (the accounts of the giraffe and the orangutan each have 2 color plates). For more information, see Nissen, Zoology, 4293.