Available for sale is a quality rare  bird engraving is from Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky's Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel or Contribution to the Natural History of Birds. The work was published by the author in Vienna between 1790 and 1792. Many of the engravings were enhanced with gold, silver, and copper and are printed on chain-linked, watermarked paper these are not but do have traces of gum arabic

Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton Spalowsky  was a medical doctor and a member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague. He published on a number of subjects including ornithology, conchology, economics, and numismatics. Spalowsky originally intended for the work to span all natures of subjects, but appears to only have had a shorter run of publication.


This is an exceedingly rare work that comes up at auction scarcely, and almost never as the complete six-volume series. Perhaps 5 copies of the work are in public libraries across the world. A three-volume copy sold for £30,000 in 2012 and £65k recently

Condition some surface soiling to the paper due to extreme age which would clean hence cheaper price One of a pair being listed

These like all items are also listed on my shop website so may be removed if sold there. Any queries and additional images check via the business information

Costings ebay charges 20% of the cost price / just under £5 for postage / packing is free / All items are thus cheaper directly from the shop and as such may be removed if sold. They are all my oddments  and end of lines so cost plus above charges 

Excess postage is always refunded

POSTAGE+PACKING:- Postage packing portion depends on size with non uk included in the ebay Global Shipping or sent UPS

  Terms & Conditions. . the boring bits

INFORMATION:-They are all as per image in both age and condition I do not sell copies and include flat UK postage for all larger and earlier items google heatons-of-tisbury/ hence rosatheatons. Items will also be available at the shop and may be removed without notice if sold there. eBay also now sees less that 5 stars as a failure on businesses and financially penalises us. Extra Photographs on request please send a direct email as the new ebay system does not always forward them but does compress them to add their logo ! . . . email address below in business information.

 PAYMENT /CONTACT.......Payment from outside the UK - I accept PAYPAL Payments in Pounds Sterling / Euro's also cheques in sterling, euro's etc I can accept credit cards by phone direct from the shop (Mon/Fri & Sat)

I will fit in with specific requests . Some special sized items occasionally take a few days to pack and find best option as often cheaper if consignment is split especially if over 2kg as the cost triples. . . If an item is wrong it can be returned for a refund BEFORE feedback is left. ** Phone number is requested for paypal as if sending via courier you are then informed by UPS rather than a horrid note saying in barn etc for larger items**
All our items are vintage / antiques correct to the dates indicated. I do not sell reprints or reproductions or hide behind pseudo names . Anything not sent Royal Mail will come normally via UPS and never Yodel or the cheap couriers etc