[Ornithology] Two works on canaries: (1) Schultz, E.Ch. Portrait d'une monstrueux serin de canarie,

il est sorti de la parti inférieure de son bec une longue corne tortillée. Traduit de l'Allemand. Hamburg, J.P.C. Reuss, n.d. (ca. 1780), 17 p., w. handcol. engr. plate, orig. printed boards, 4to. Extremely rare French edition. Schultz had seen the canary w. its extremely deformed beak in the collection of B. Vriends in Haarlem. Cobres I, p. 187. On the original German edition, cf. Engelmann, p. 397 and Poggendorff II, col. 860-61. (2) J.Ch. Hervieux de Chanteloup. Nouveau traité des serins de canarie, contenant la maniere de les élever & les appareiller pour en avoir de belles races; avec des remarques sur les signes & causes de leurs maladies & plusieurs secrets pour les guérir. Nouvelle édition, revûe, corrigée & augmentée (...). Paris, Saugrain Fils, 1745, (2),XXXVIII,(6),368,(16) p., w. 1 engr. plate, 1 double-sided fold. engr. plate w. music scores and 2 pages w. woodcut music scores, cont. marbled calf, gilt and ribbed spine w. mor. letterpiece. Partly wormholed in blank upper inner corner, sm. tear in fold. plate, offsetting from turn-ins. Spine-ends and outer corners worn. Birkhead, The red canary (2014). Later edition of - according to Birkhead - the first ever monograph on canaries, by the ultimate canary connoisseur, covering all aspects of the species. The author took care of the canaries of Mme. Princesse de Condé and was one of the best in training canaries to sing. The first edition was published in 1705.

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