(Band 5)
This is volume 5 of a natural history of birds published in 1759, with hand-coloured engravings by Johann Michael Seligmann after the work of George Edwards and Mark Catesby, held by Heidelberg University Library and likely made for naturalists and collectors. The plates show single birds posed on branches, ground or water beside botanical sprigs, with crisp outlines and flat tinted colour; a designer could draw on their precise feather patterning, muted earth palette and the framing of each specimen against plain paper.
