'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 2319698 Or A Vision of 1869'

Or A Vision of 1869'

with music specially composed by Handel

Buste de femme en costume oriental

the King renounced his claim to the Spanish throne for himself

View of the Savoy Chapel

'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 2319698 Or A Vision of 1869'Ornithological study of the Virginia rail Rallus limicola from North America, posed on a bank by the waterside. Plate 279 from chapter 69 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The American Water Rail, Etched from Nature of the bigness of life. George Edwards Delin. et Sculp: AD 1757.' Original: etching. 1757