The Natural History of British Birds
/This week’s eBooks are the 10 volume The Natural History of British Birds by Edward Donovan. They were first published in the late 1700s and are available on Internet Archive. The author did not travel but described and illustrated species based on collections of other naturalists. It is obvious in some of the illustrations that he never saw the living bird! Still – the illustrations were my motivation to browse the books – thinking about how the numbers of these birds are reduced from when he worked…and how this author’s books are a natural history snapshot of birds (and insects) that were collected/available to him.
The natural history of British birds V1
The natural history of British birds V2
The natural history of British birds V3
The natural history of British birds V4
The natural history of British birds V5
The natural history of British birds V6
The natural history of British birds V7
The natural history of British birds V8
