Ferdinand Adam Pernau 1660-1731

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Nurnburg 1754 Georg Peter Monath contemporary full tree calf, spine with 6 densly gilt compartmentsof raised bands, yellow morocco label on two, all edges tinted red. Marbled paste-down and free endpapers Text in German.

Ferdinand Adam Pernau was born at Steinach in lower Austria. Studying birds on his property of Rosenau near Coburg, Pernau documented different aspects of bird behavior and “deserves to be ranked among those who have paved the way for the modern methods of investigating bird life” (Stresemann 35). This book contains a thorough examination of bird behavior, for example, he states that complicated bird songs are not innate/inborn but that they have to be learned by listening to another bird. He was also the first person who clearly recognized that the migration of birds was not caused by temperatures, but “by a hidden pull or attraction involved at the right time to migrate”. He followed with interest the possible measuring by various calls or cries of birds. (Stressemann 290). 8vo Copper engraved frontis of birds, title in red and black, elaborate head and tail pieces. Contains 45 copper engraved plates. The first 30 plates show various methods of catching birds and the following 15 illustrate the comentaries An excellent copy. P. frontis, title, blank, preface 5 (1), plate index (2), 664; title, blank, 667-696, index (8).

• USD 3,500.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 1670

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