A Natural History of Birds. Illustrated With Two Hundred and Five Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life. And Exactly Colour d by the Author. Quarto. A reissue of the first edition, with cancel title pages (ESTC T64476). Large quarto, 2 volumes, complete. Vol. 1. pp. [viii], 98, (4); 101 plates; Vol. 2 pp. [viii], 92 ,(2) 104 plates; full calf, recent re-back. Bookplates to both front pastedowns. Boards somewhat worn with edges and corners rubbed. A handsome work of hand-coloured copper-plates that is held to be the first book on birds with coloured illustrations. Although predominantly on British Birds, a few non-British feature also, particularly in Volume 2, including the Flammant (flamingo), the Cassowary and the Indian Vulture, drawn from the private collections of exotic birds of his patrons and fellow naturalists. Albin also appealed to readers of Volume I for any curious birds he could draw for Volume 2 to be sent to him near the Dog and Duck in Tottenham Court Road.