Folder containing 'Pigeon Excerpt with Plates' from the 'Ornithology' of Francis Willughby [Willoughby], comprising three leaves of text and four plates from the original work of 1678. With printed label discussing Restoration 'English fanciers'.

The extract from Willughby's 1678 comprise three folio leaves paginated 179-184, containing the text of 'CHAP. XIV. | Of Doves or Pigeons in general.'; with plates xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv and xxxvi, with representations of twenty doves or pigeons. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Loosely inserted in a twentieth-century folder, half bound in brown marbled boards with green cloth corners and spine. Label on front ('Francis Willoughby | Ornithology 1678 | Pigeon Excerpt with Plates'. Label inside front cover contains paragraph discussing John Ray, Charles II and his aviary, and Skippon and Cope, 'the earliest English fanciers on record, so far as I have discovered'.