Anas fraenata seu Marila femin. Grimad And.
Grafik, karta.
[Stockholm] [1805-1816] 40,5 x 25 cm. Hand coloured engraving. A few brown spots in the margins. A couple creases. A beautiful image published for the rare swedish bird book "Svensk Ornithologie" (Swedish Ornithology). Anders Sparrman is internationally renowned for his participation in captain Cooks second voyage and for his narratives of that journey, as well as for his study of South Africa. He was sent out by Linneaus to gather information and collect samples from of the natural world. Back in Sweden he published, among many other things, two folio works on birds "Museum Carlsonianum" 1786-1789, containing foreign birds and "Svensk Ornithologie" 1805-1816, with 68 swedish birds. He was critizized for the lack of scientific exactness, the birds did not look right scholars complained. By modern standards the plates have a stuning beauty and an air of romance. Like works of art. Rare.
