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Lot 293
Sale 5273 - Fine Books & Ephemera
Jan 14, 2010
5:00AM ET
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Hand-Colored Engraving. Catesby, Mark. [The Fox Colored Thrush or Brown Thrasher.] [Nuremberg, 1750 or 1777.] 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (292 x 212 mm), good margins. German-language ed. engraved by J.M. Seligmann. Generally clean & bright. Framed. Pictured with the Wild Cherry, during Colonial times, Brown Thrashers, like Mockingbirds, were kept in cages, for they had a great reputation as songbirds.
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