Three early books on birds’ eggs: Marsili’s Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus (1726), Zinanni’s Delle Uova e dei Nidi degli Uccelli (1737) and Klein’s Ova avium plurimarum ad naturalem magnitudinem delineata et genuinis coloribus picta (1766)

The three earliest – all eighteenth-century – illustrated accounts of birds’ eggs were by Luigi Marsili (or Marsigli): Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, Giuseppe Zinanni (or Ginanni): Delle Uova e dei Nidi degli Uccelli, and Jacob Theodor Klein: Ova avium plurimarum ad naturalem magnitudinem delineata et...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: T. R. Birkhead, A. Pilastro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:The European Zoological Journal
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1549277