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Lot 203
Four Large Folio Avian Engravings and Two Prints of One Portrait
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: Cornelius Nozeman (Dutch, 1712-1786), two hand-colored copperplate engravings - Hirundo Agrestis Drepanis and Nidus Ardeae Stellaris - from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam, circa 1770), with text for the first print (very good condition); two identical portraits of Thomas Parrie from a folio of Hans Holbein drawings (London, 1792), with full calf portfolio case (good condition; the case in poor condition); two colored prints from Gould's The Birds of Great Britain (London, 1860-1872), "Black Redstart" and "Sterna Macrura," with two unrelated folders (prints with good color, full margins, some foxing).

21.5 x 15.25 in.

Collection from Strawberry Hill Antiques, Alexandria, Virginia