Hand-colored engravings on laid paper, 18th century, to include "Little White Heron" and "Summer Duck," from Johann Michael Seligmann's Sammlung Verschiedener Auslaendisher und Seltener Vogel (Collection of Various Foreign and Little-Known Birds): Nuremberg, 1749-1776, by Seligmann (German, 1720-1762), the second after George Edwards, housed in uniform polychrome wood framing.

Platemarks 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (each approximately); DOA 17 1/2 x 14 in.

Private Collection, NC

Each with strong, bright hand coloring.

Good estate condition; the second with possible faint color run (very slight, and may be by artist's hand); not examined out of frames.

$400 - 600