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First and only edition of this rare set of ornithological prints by the famed cartographer Nicolaes Visscher I. 

The fine series of twenty-four plates shows over one hundred figures in natural settings, labelled in Latin, with an engraved title depicting a marketplace with birds for sale, both dead and alive. 

STCN 38591878X; Nissen 962; Wood, p. 614 (‘curious and very rare’). 

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