after Mark Catesby (English, 1683-1749), Two Ornithological Works

Hand-colored engravings on laid paper, 18th century, to include "The Purple Gross-beak" and "The Blue Gross-beak" 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), presented in gilt frame with matting.

DOA 21 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Good estate condition; several minor spots to the first; more foxing to the second; not examined out of frames.