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Hand-colored engraving is from Saverio Manetti’s work Storia naturale degli Uccelli or A Natural History of Birds. Manetti (1767-1776) Ornithology. Rare work of ornithology published in five volumes in folio in Florence (1767-1776). Content 600 colored plates engraved by hand with birds from all over the world that make it the most important book of the time on the subject