Birds.- Olina (Giovanni Pietro) Uccelliera overo discorso della natura e proprieta di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, allevargli e mantenergli, first edition, title with engraved arms of the dedicatee Cassiano dal Pozzo, 66 full-page engraved illustrations after Antonio Tempesta and Francesco Villamena (one trimmed to platemark and laid down), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, large tear into text with old repair (A4-5), short tear to bottom edge with no loss (F8), loss to bottom corner with neat restoration (G2), several ff. with short tears and old tape repairs to margins, scattered light spotting and staining, nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Anker 380; Nissen IVB 693; Harting 278; Schwerdt II, 48; Souhart 355-356], 4to, Rome, Andrea Fei, 1622.

⁂ First edition of 'The first purely ornithological work illustrated with a considerable number of engravings in the form of full-page figures' (Anker). It includes one of the first depictions of a canary. While it concentrates on cage birds, it is also of interest for different methods of hunting, catching and keeping birds, and for a recipe for bird food. Olina (1585-c.1645) was an Italian naturalist, lawyer, and theologian, best known for the present work.