(Note that this is volume 16 of the Auk, not volume 14 as cited by Dickinson (2016 Zootaxa Zookeys. 2016, 550:132).
Handb.BirdsAustr. Handbook to The birds of Australia Gould, J. 1865 London 2 vols.
Handb.BirdsE.China A Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China (Chihli, Shantung, Kiangsu, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Fohkien and Kwantung Provinces) Author: La Touche, John David Digues de. Title: A handbook of the birds of eastern China (Chihle, Shantung, Kiangsu, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Fohkien, and Kwangtung provinces). / By J. D. D. La Touche ... Publisher: London, Taylor and Francis, 1925-1934. Description: 2 v. illus., plates, fold. maps. 24 cm. Notes: Issued in parts.
Handb.BirdsWorld Handbook of the Birds of the World Lynx Editions, Barcelona 1992-2013 v.1-16, Special Volume.
Handb.GameBirds A Hand-book to the Game Birds. Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert 1895,1897 London 2 vols. 8vo.
Handb.Jamaica The Handbook of Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica
Handb.Naturgesch. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, &c. 2 Abth. pp. viii,xxvi, xii, 858 (1836) 1837 8vo Berlin
Handb.Naturgesch.Vog.Deutschl. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vogel Deutschlands... Brehm, CL 1831 Ilmenau pp.1,1085 [? Bock has xxiv + 1088 ]
Handb.spec.Orn. Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig 1851-54 Dresden and Leipzig portions published as: Icon.Syn.Av. Icones ad synopsin avium
Handb.Zool. Handbuch der Zoologie 2 Abth. Goldfuss, Georg August 1820 Nurnberg 8vo
Hand-BookGame-Birds A Hand-book to the Game Birds. Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert [1863-1924] 1895,97. London 8vo
Hand-listGen.Spec.Birds[Gray] Hand-list of genera and species of Birds, distinguishing those contained in the British Museum. Gray, G.R. 1869-71 London 3 pt. 8vo
Hand-listGen.Spec.Birds[Sharpe] A Hand-list of the genera and species of Birds. (Nomenclator Avium fossilum tum viventium.) Sharpe, RB. 1899-1909 London 5 vol. 8vo
HawaiianAlmanacAnnual["1879"] Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1879 [ All about Hawaii. The recognized book of authentic information on Hawaii, combined with Thrum's Hawaiian annual and standard guide. 1st. ed 1875. Title varies: 1875-1924, Hawaiian almanac and annual (on cover 1892-1924: Hawaiian annual). ] [ message from Luella Kurkjian luellak@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org to Storrs Olson 97.05.30 "Publication date for 1879 issue is 1878. Acutally, no publication date is included anywhere in this or previous issues. However, at the bottom fo p.32 is the following: "The Alamnac and Annual is made up to November, to be issue in tome for the December mails..." ]
Heredity
Hist.Acad.R.Sci.Paris Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, ... Avec les Memoires de Mathematique & de Physique, pour la meme Anne, Tires des Registres de cette Academie. 1789 A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale. Desfontaines' Memoires sur QuelQues Nouvelles Especes D'Oiseaux Des Cotes De Barbarie
Hist.BirdsEur.[Bree]Ed.2 A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles. 2nd Ed. Bree, Charles Robert [1811-1886] 1875-1876 London 4to [Issued in monthly parts (? possibly only 1sted. ?]
Hist.BirdsEur.[Dresser] A history of the birds of Europe : including all the species inhabiting the western palaeactic region H. E. Dresser. T.P. BHL images [Data from AMNH catalogue] Publisher London : Published by the author, 1871-1896. Description 9 v. : col. ill. ; 33 cm. Note Each vol. has special t.p., illustrated. Issued in parts (main work in 84 pts., suppl. in 9 pts.) Parts 1-13 prepared in collaboration with R.B. Sharpe. Publication date on v. 1-8: "1871-1881"; on v. 9: "1895-1896." Vol. 9 has title: A supplement to A history of the birds of Europe : including all the species inhabiting the western palaeactic region : forming v. 9. Plates by J.G. Keulemans and Joseph Wolf.
Hist.Brit.Birds A history of British Birds, with coloured illustrations of their eggs. Seebohm, Henry 1882-5 London 4 vols. 4to R. H. Porter [?1883-5] I 1883 II 1884 III 1885 IV 1885 (Plates) [imprint dates from Yale Orn. Libr. copy 2003.11.07]
Hist.Brit.Birds[MacGillivray] A history of British Birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations. MacGillivray, William [1796-1852] 1837-40 London 3 vols. 8vo.
Hist.Brit.Foss.Mamm.Birds A history of British fossil mammals, and birds. Owen, Richard 1846 London 23 cm pp.xlvi+560 illust. woodcuts
Hist.Chile[Gay] Historia fisica, y politica de Chile, &c Gay, Claude [1800 - 1873] 1844-71 Santiago, Paris
Hist.IlesCanariesOrn. Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries. Ornithologie Canarienne. Webb, Philip Barker & Berthelot, Sabin 1835-44 Paris Vol II. by above authors and Alfred Moquin-Tandon 3 vols and atlas 4to and folio
The ornithological portion of Webb and Berhtelot's natural history ov the Canary Islands, published in the years 1835-50 (Vol. II, Zoology, 1835-44). The present section [APP: referring to pp.1-48, pll.1-4 (col.; by E. Traviés).] appears to have been issued as a unit (traces of original ? wrapper remain), forming a portion of Pt. 2 of Vol. II, and probably dating 1841. Dresser (A History of the Birds of Europe, 1871-82, q.v.) cites 1841, as does Koenig (Journal für Ornithologie, July and Oct., 1890, pp. 398, 404, and 483); a number of references are given in the work itself to publications dated 1840. The paper describes 108 species of birds, 5 of which are new, and gives observations on habits based on the field notes of Webb and Berthelot, of Moquin- Tandon, and of all three authors, the last being indicated by the subtitle transcribed above.
Plate 4 (livr. 31) July 1838 Text, pp.1-48 (livr. 63) May 1842
Livr. 1-9 reviewed in Isis, 1837 and date given as 1835
two numbers are published monthly".additionally in that review it is stated
no part of the letter-press [of the Zoology] having yet appeared.Richmond goes on to comment on that card
So the text of the Zoology must have started after Livr.7. The only bird plate in the above livr. 1-7 is Fringilla teydea.
See Richmond CW. 1899 "On the Date of Lacépède's ‘Tableaux.’" Auk 16:325-329. He states (p.325):
Hist.IslaCuba[Sagra] Historia fisica, politica y natural de la Isla de Cuba, por d. Ramon de la Sagra ... Sagra, Ramon de la [1801-71] Paris 13 vols A. Bertrand. [ Also as Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de ;ile de Cuba. 1839-1856 Sagra, Ramon de le 13 vols. Paris ]
Hist.N.Am.Birds[Baird,Brewer,Ridgway] A history of North American birds. Baird, SF, Brewer, TM, and Ridgway, R. 3 vol. 4to pp. xxviii,596, vi;(4), 590, vi;(4), 560, xxviii. 1874 Boston Little, Brown and Co.
Hist.Nat. SEE ZwierzatDomowych.
Hist.Nat.[Buffon]ed.Didot
'The "Didot" edition, in 18mo, is said to consist of 76 volumes, dating from 1799 to 1806; the genera, Mr. Sherborn states, are to be credited to Lacépède, and the species to Daudin.'
This section addresses volume I.
Hist.Nat.[Buffon]ed.Lacepede Histoire Naturelle par Buffon dediee au citoyen Lacepede [by whom this edition was edited] 1799-1809 76 Tom. Paris [ Note: under Ploceus [Loxia] baglafecht, CWR notes: "Loxia baglafecht (Daudin) Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, Vol. 14, p.245, 1799. (Listed in vol 14, as "20. Lebaglefecht. Loxia baglefecht, Tome VI, p.191"). Note: The description, habits, etc., appear on pp. 191-192 in Vol. 6 of the above edition. However, the scientific name appears in the _index_ Vol. 14 as quoted above." ] [ Peters lists this as "Quad." which would imply the "Quadrupedes" which is 14 Vol. It seems more likely that it is in "Oiseaux", which is in 18 Vols. but both Daudin and Lacepede did work in Quad. and the volume includes a "Tableau des divisions ... des Mammiferes (-Oiseaux)" which may be the "index" that the Richmond Cardex refers to. ] [Note: Richmond CW. 1899. "On the Date of Lacédède's 'Tableaux'". Auk 16:325-329 Seems to suggest Ploceus baglafect should be 1800 ? (very confusing).] [Note: see also CWR DOP B297.jpg also suggesting 1800 for livr.14]
Hist.Nat.Cetacees Histoire naturelle des cétacées, par le citoyen La Cepéde. 1804 Paris
Hist.Nat.Colibris,Suppl.Ois.-Mouch. Histoire naturelle des colibris, suivie d'un supplement a l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches. Lesson, RP 1830-2 13 (?14) pts. Paris 8vo pp.10+196
Hist.Nat.Corrientes Historia Natural, Corrientes ? maybe this? Historia Natural (to date am unable to find the appropriate material to support this taxon: 1987 Hist.Nat.Corrientes,Argentina 7 no.06 p. 71-72 Nothoprocta pentlandii patriciae Hoy,G
Hist.Nat.Japon. De historiae naturalis in Japonia statu, nec non de augmentoemolumentisque in decursu perscrutationum exspectandis dissertatio, cui accedunt Spicilegia faunae Japonicae. Batavia. SIEBOLD, Phillip Franz von 1824 Batavia (Leyden) 2021.01.07
Hist.Nat.Madagascar.Ois. Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar Milne-Edwards A, and Grandidier A 1875-1890 4to Vol. XII to XV: Tom.I pp.779; Tom.II-IV 208 pls. Zimmer discusses this complex work in detail (pp.264-265). The text portion was issued in three parts: pp. 1-176; 1879 pp.177-376; 1882 (Feb. or more probably later). pp.377-779; 1885 [ Dieter Schierenberg Cat. gives 1875-1885 and gives Vols. 12-15: Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux with text and 3 atlases. ]
Hist.Nat.Mamm. Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs, et de leurs rapports avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture. Gervais, Paul 1854-55 Paris 2 vols. illust.
Hist.Nat.Mamm.Ois.[Lesson] Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des Mammiferes et des Oiseaux decouverts depuis 1788 jusqu'a nos jours. Lesson, RP 1828-37 Paris 8vo 10 Tom. illust. col.
Hist.Nat.Mendoza [Status of Journal uncertain. ? Notas del Museo / Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael-Mendoza ]
Hist.Nat.Ois.Am.Sept. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septontrionale.. Vieillot, LJP 1807-09 Paris. 2 vols. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I believe some issues are resolved here for the first time, while other issues remain unresolved. Volume II is not addressed here.
My motivation for studying this problem started in the early 1990's when I wondered over the inconsistency of the AOU Checklists in dating the genus group names published in Vol. 1. The interest increased when I examined the Richmond - Witmer Stone Correspondence in 2004.
(Note that this is volume 16 of the Auk, not volume 14 as cited by Dickinson (2016 Zootaxa Zookeys. 2016, 550:132).
In various works the three genera are dated to 1807 or 1808
When it comes to dating the species names from this work, sadly the mystery is not yet solved. In this regard Edward Dickinson (Zool.Bibliogr.2011 1(3):136) is correct in his plea to find a copy of this work with the wrappers bound in place.
The most recent treatments of this matter are due to Dickinson (Zoological Bibliography. 2011. 1:136); expanded on in "Priority!", 2011 p.157); and then in ZooKeys 2016 550:123).
I interpret Dickinson’s thesis to be as follows: Richmond, used the Journal Typographique et Bibliogrpahique (hereinafter J.T.B.) No.XLIII:331-332 28 Décembre 1807, to determine the date of publication. Dickinson interpretation is that Richmond blundered by mistakenly believing the text to be an announcement when in fact it was an advertisement announcing a future publication. Dickinson appears to base this on his translation of the French text "sera publié", which indeed means "will be published". Seizing on this, Dickinson holds that the J.T.B. text of Dec. 28, 1807 date is advertising a future event, and not an announcement as Richmond thought. In other words, Dickinson’s French expertise make something obvious to him that Richmond missed. Of note, Richmond's letters include segments of French material, untranslated, and implying that Stone would understand them. As to Richmond's proficiency in French I have no direct knowledge.
Here is the J.T.B. notice. (J.T.B.:331-332).
You will note we are told that more than 400 species are described, and more than 500 described for the first time(!) (In a later announcement the "500" becomes "50" as you will see.)
A relevant portion of text (p.332) reads:
"Cet Ouvrage ser publié par Souscription et par Livraison,..."which means "This work will be published by subscription and issued as livraisons" (emphasis added).
Is there any evidence of a current ongoing process? There certainly appears to be. Further on the text states:
"... à commencer du 1er. décembre 1807..."indicating in late December that this activity had already commenced in the beginning of the month (1 December 1807). This presumably was the basis for Richmond’s very reasonable interpretation that 1 December, 1807 is the date of initial publication.
In Priority! p.157 (2011) Dickinson states
“that in Jul 1808 the first livraison was still promised ‘to be published’ but now on 1 Sep 1808.”– his single-quoted phrase almost certainly referring to Dickinson’s translation of “sera publié” mentioned previously. Here Dickinson is referring to the text in the July 1808 Mercure de France (hereinafter MdF). Given Dickinson’s incomplete translation above, it seems best to check the facts. The MdF text is here:
The relevant portion (p.96, first complete paragraph) reads:
"à commencer du 1er. septembre 1807,"(underlining added). NOT 1808 as Dickinson states ("Priority! 2011 p.157; Zookeys 2016:123), but 1807, with publication commencing not in 1808 (as per Dickinson), but before that in September of 1807! Dickinson’s error here appears to be not a problem of translation/interpretation, but a simple error of fact.
Dickinson in his early publishing on the subject still seems to regard this as an advertisement,
“In fact, the announcement is an advertisement…”.In Priority! he again states
“but this is based on an advertisement”.Then in 2016 in ZooKeys, what had been called “an advertisement” changes. Dickinson now says:
“What Richmond saw was merely an announcement..”Even though the distinction had previously been held as critical to the case that critical distinction is now reduced. I am still uncertain why this is "merely" an announcement, and exactly what that implies.
The relevent ZooKeys text is as follows (emphasis added):
“The Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l’Amerique septentrionale of Vieillot: was discussed by Richmond (1899) who mistakenly believed, and seems to have led Browning and Monroe (1991) to believe, that the first part was published on 1 December, 1807. In fact what Richmond saw was merely an announcement that appeared four weeks after that saying it “will be published” on that date. A later notice in July 1808 changes the story and said that it “will be published” on 1 September 1808. The date of each part that was suggested by Browning and Monroe was merely a projection of a very rapid, and almost certainly over- optimistic, timetable based on a start date that was at least nine months out. Indeed, based on the delay of the first part, it is extremely unlikely that subsequent issues followed on schedule every month. But here we have no correct dates to use and for the moment the incorrect dates are retained to avoid premature changes to nomenclatural stability (Dickinson 2011).”
As we can see for ourselves, the text actually says 1807, not 1808.
In fairness to Dickinson it appears he may never have seen these announcements himself. This possibility is suggested by his in-text reference in Priority! which reads.
“(source: a further notice by Desray in the Mercure de France 33 (CCCLXIV), dated 9 Jul 1808 – accessible on Google Books: Neal Evanhuis in litt. 17.04.11)”.
The speculative possibility of Dickinson not seeing the announcement is strengthened, in my view, by the fact that he does not give page numbers for either the MdF announcement, or the notice in the J.T.B. Citations of published material conventionally contain page numbers or ranges of page numbers. If Dickinson did not see the announcement it would be understandable that he would seize upon "sera publié" (without the following text) as simply saying “will be published” thus describing a future activity and perhaps more typical for an advertisement than an announcement, or "mere announcement". Dickinson makes no mention of the change of month from December to September as the date of publication commencement. My speculation here is that Dickinson, having gotten the year wrong, and having become invested in his theory of further delay saw September as fitting that narrative very well. But this is merely speculation.
We, however, must still question the 1 September/1 December difference. I cannot currently solve that mystery, yet still some increased understanding of this work is to be had.
Vieillot's work thus has endured as a source of problematic interpretations.
Stone refers to his correspondence with Richmond in his obituary for Richmond (Auk 50:1-22. 1933). I know of this letter and its contents because of my pursuit of the material, travelling to the (then) Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences where it was held. In discussing the Hist.Ois.Am.Sept. (in the context of changes necessary for the 1931 AOU CL ed.4) he writes (dated July 8, 1930):
“I was of the opinion that the preliminary plate of generic outlines and text belonging to it were issued in the first part (Dec., 1807), but on getting out the work, to verify the generic names that would date from 1807 I was shocked to discover that a list of errata up to p.65 were on the same leaf, hence could not have been published in the first part! We shall have to change the dates of Pinicola, Piranga, and Icteria at least to 1808.”
I think this explains why the 1931 AOU CL ed.4 was the first to have the 1808 date for these genera.
Richmond had been aware (at least in 1899) that the preliminary matter included in the bound first volume was not printed until that volume was complete. Similarly, Dickinson (2011 Priority! p.158) understood this. He guessed (correctly this time) that this preliminary matter was printed at the time the end of the volume (which he correctly guesses was livr.10 -- for which v.i.) was being printed and that the preliminary matter would then be included at the front of the volume when bound. He states (Priority! p.158):
“this would move two generic names (Pinicola and Piranga), now dated 1807, back to Sep 1808”.A glance at the text shows three generic names (Pinicola, Piranga, and Icteria) not two. As discussed above, given Dickinson’s dating error, and his confusion regarding notice vs. advertisement, there is no reason why he would be intrigued by the “septembre” in the line announcing the commencement of publication.
But WE certainly should be. What happened to “1 Dec. 1807” which all of a sudden is 1 Sept. 1807?
Patience and providence have combined and we can add to the tale.
Mr Ben Lamb recently purchased a copy of volume 1 of this work (color plate edition) that had been in the Wassenaar Zoo library.
This volume is described as having been acquired by the Wassenaar Zoo Library from the De Goederen firm in December 1952.
There is nothing in the volume itself to indicate its history beyond a small number inside the front board that was the zoo's own catalog number.
It was sold as the only example of the wrappers known.
Sadly, the wrappers are bound at the back, so no definitive help is to be had in delineating livraison contents and limits. But contributions to our understanding of the matter are still to be had.
There are 10 wrappers, establishing that vol.1 was composed of 10 livraisons.
The work itself is composed of NUMBERED signatures. An exception to this is what must be the preliminary matter
which starts with pages in a signature labelled “a”. According to Leslie Overstreet of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of
Natural History at the Smithsonian, it was a common practice for preliminary material to be printed AFTER the volume was otherwise complete.
And this makes practical sense, a summary of the contents (and errata) can not possibly be published and released with the first livraison.
This preliminary material was then bound at the front – as seen in bound copies, and as anticipated by Dickinson, and Richmond.
Understandably, the preliminary material had a different signature notation than the body of the work, with "a" as seen here being common.
We have some advance of understanding simply from the number of wrappers (10). It seems convincing that the preliminary material including the generic names and errata in signature “a” could not have been published in 1807. Certainly not if publication commenced in 1 Dec 1807, and would still be extremely unlikely even if it commenced in 1 September 1807. Either date of commencement would have required an impossibly fast publishing rate to complete the whole volume in 1 month or 5, and would have been completely unlike the proposed rate of 1 livraison per month.
Therefore, 1808 is the appropriate date for the preliminary matter including the errata and three genus group names (Pinicola, the Evening Grosebeak, Piranga the Summer Tanager group, and Icteria, the Yellow-breasted Chat).
Lamb describes his copy thus:
“The plates and text are not bound in a logical manner - meaning the plates have not been positioned opposite the relevant text. Rather the plates are inserted a few at a time between signatures of text. It has occurred to me that this could be a clue to the contents of each livraison. If someone had merely taken a stack of ten original parts to a binder and asked that they be bound, the binder having no other instructions would probably take off the wrappers, put the title in front and then just bind everything else in the order in which it was handed to him. But I had not done a complete collation until this morning, and it's not obvious that this is what happened.”
Comparing Lamb’s collation with the livraison assignments made by Browning and Monroe only increases my confusion. We have, I believe, near complete uncertainty regarding the livraison contents and the order in which the material was published. While the Browning and Monroe livraison attributions can not be disproven, there appears to be very little support for them. In my opinion the order and dating of all but the preliminary matter is not established, and is best treated as 1808. This matches Dickinson's conclusion, but for very different reasons.
So, what do these wrappers LOOK like, and what can be known, surmised, guessed, and imagined from them?
Time to take a look.
Here is the first.
Tome 1 1me
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HISTOIRE NATURELLE
DES OISEAUX
DE
L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTIONALE,
CONTENANT PLUSIERS GENRES NOUVEAUX,
L'HISTOIRE ET LES MŒURS DE PLUS 400 ESPÈCES, PARMI LESQUELLES PLUS DE 160 N'AVOIENT
PAS ENCORE ÉTÉ FIGURÉES, ET DONT DE 50 SONT DÉCRITES POUR LA PREMIÉRE FOIS;
PAR M. L. P. VIEILLOT,
Continuateur de 'Histoire des Colibris et des Oiseaux-Mouches; auter de celle Jacamars, des
Grimpereaux, des Promerops, des Oiseaux de Paradis, et de la plupart des articles d'Ornitholgie du
nouveau Dictionnnaire d'Histoire naturelle, etc.
OUVRAGE orné d'environ 250 Planches, dessinées par les plus habiles artistes de Paris, imprimées
en couleurs, et soigneusement retouchées au pinceaus.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FORMAT GRAND IN-FOLIO SUR PAPIER VÉLIN SUPERFIN DIT NOM DE JÉSUS.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cet Ouvrage sera publié par Souscription et par Livraisons composées chacune de six Planches et du Texte. In en paroitra [sic]
réguliérement une Livraison le 1er de chaque mois. à commencer du 1er Septembre 1807, et il ne sera rien payé d'avance.
This last part can be translated as:This work is available by subscription and issued as livraisons. Each livraison is composed of 6 plates accompanied by text to be delivered regularly on the first day of the month, beginning with September 1, 1807. No advance payment is required.Comparison of this text with the published notices shows important differences and similarities.
There are different spellings (unimportant), differing use of diacritical marks (unimportant) and there is information given on the notices that is not seen here, for example the geographic range covered in the work. This additional information appears to come from the AVERTISSEMENT. The Avertissement, part of signature “1”, was undoubtedly issued with the release of livraison 1 (which would have lacked the preliminary material comprising signature “a”).
The wrappers apparently were printed in at least one batch before the livraisons were printed and distributed. There are two indications of this. First, the aôut crossed out, with septembre written beneath, and second the handwritten entries for “Tome” and “livraison” at top of page. The wrappers would have been printed in anticipation of the Tome / livraison details being filled in when the livraisons were issued. The apparent original intent of an August start apparently was not met, that text was hand cancelled, and the actual starting date provided. The fact that every wrapper has an identical hand alteration from aôut to septembre implies a fact that was maintained to be correct through to the last livraison of the volume. Absent other evidence, this should be regarded as the date when the first livraison was delivered and not a year (or more) later as Dickinson interprets.
The September commencement data is supported by the July 1808 MdF statement that the delivery of subscription livraisons commenced on 1 September, 1807. Presumably, the July 1808 MdF statement is simply taken from a livraison wrapper, with additional details supplied either from the Avertissement or from a previous notice. Why this September date did not appear in the Dec. J.T.B. notice is not clear to me.
Additionally note that the wrapper promises the Livraison on the first day of the month (obviously requiring printing in the month prior). I speculate that this may explain why aôut is crossed out and septembre written in. A delay in production that made livraison 1 miss the projected date, and slide from August into September.
The December JTB announcement has text with word for word similarity to the wrapper. It also appears to have been composed (or set) in haste, with errors like announcing that the work contains 400 species accounts, and that over 500 [sic] of those are newly described. (corrected to 50 in later notices).
One wonders if this sloppy haste is responsible for the "December" listing, which is found only on this notice.
One appropriately might wonder what the other 9 wrappers show, and if that might help with this mystery. All 10 wrappers are identical, with the exception of the hand written numbers at the top. On the top line all have a handwritten “1” after the “Tome” and then handwritten numbers “1” thru “10” prior to “Livraison”. If that is helpful, I am not sure how. But we know all 10 livraisons were issued with a notice indicating that the publishing commenced on the 1st of September, 1807. The writing on all 10 wrappers is in the same hand.
Is there evidence or proof of delay? I am not sure there is. It has been assumed there was delay, but I think this may simply reflect uncertainty about the dates of issue of the livraisons and their contents. It seems to me that the case is moot, in that even if we assume the livraisons were issued on the first of the month, starting 1 September, 1807, we still don’t know what was in each livraison. The first taxon (after the 1808 preliminary matter) of possible dating concern is Accipiter striatus on p.42 and pl.14. At 6 plates per livraison that MIGHT be livraison 3 (as Browning and Monroe have it), and might have been published in November, 1807. Already we are up to two “mights”. The collation of Lamb’s volume would support, but certainly not prove livraison 3 as containing pl.14 but not page 42.
Here is the collation of Lamb's copy (signatures in parentheses):
Half title Title Table de articles (a) Explication de la planche première Pages 1-4 (1) Plates 1-2, 2 bis, 3, 3bis, 4-6 [8 pll.] Pages 5-16 (2-4) Plates 7-10, 10 bis, 11-12 [7 pll.] Pages 17-28 (5-7) Plates 13-14, 14 bis, 15-16 [6 pll.] ? BaM livr.3 ? Pages 28-36 (7 bis [1 leaf only], 8-9) Plates 17-29 [18 pll.] Pages 37-38, 38*-38**, 39-44 (10 [1 leaf only], 10 bis, 11) ? BaM livr.3 Plates 30-35 [6 pll.] Pages 45-56 (12-14) Plates 36-41 [6 pll.] Pages 57-68 (15-17) Plates 42-47 [6 pll.] Pages 69-76 (18-19) Plates 48-53 [6 pll.] Pages 77-90 (20-23 [23 one leaf only]) Plates 54-57 [4 pll.] Wrappers 1-10 (each hand numbered 1er behind the printed ‘Tome’ and 1-10 before the printed ‘Livraison’)The preliminary matter (sig. a) certainly was printed upon completion of vol. 1, putting it in 1808 unless all 10 livraisons were published between 1 September and 31 December 1807 – a likelihood so improbable it is not worth considering. Thus, placing the preliminary matter in 1808 makes sense, as Richmond understood and commented on to Stone in his July 1930 letter. However, in contrast to his understanding in 1899, Richmond felt that all of the material in vol. 1 therefore needed to be dated to 1808 (or possibly later).
Interestingly, Dickinson makes no mention of the important list of errata found on p.[iv] in signature "a". I show them here on the same page where Pinicola, Piranga, and Icteria occur.
While a few specific names might eventually be demonstrated to have been published in 1807, such a possibility remains speculative and I do not see adequate evidence to determine to which cases it can applied with certainty. Thus all names in volume one are best dated to 1808 in the absence of other evidence.
Despite the considerable differences in interpretation, and despite data errors by Dickinson, my recommendation for dates here does not differ from his.
2020.12.19Comments&Suggestions to Data Steward
Hist.Nat.Ois.[LeMaout] Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, suivant la classification de M. Isisdore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs, et de leurs raports avec les art, le commerce et l'agriculture. Le Maout, Jean Emmanuel Marie [ 1800-77] "1853" = 1852 Paris 2 p. l., xivii,425,[3] p. front. illus 34 pl. L. Curmer The Bibliographie de France indicates that livr.1,2 were published by 19 June 1852 and livr.3-50 were published by December of 1852. It was common at this time, particulalry in French publication, to use an imprint date which reflected the expected date of completion though works were often never actually completed, or were completed years or decades after the anticipated date of completion.
Hist.Nat.Ois.[Loche] Title: Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux / par Le Commandant Loche. Main author: Loche, Victor, 1806-1863 Added title page: Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux de l'Algérie Added title page: Oiseaux Publisher info: Paris : Arthus Bertrand, 1867. Physical descrip: 2 vols ([iii], 309; 444p, 13 leaves of plates) ; 38 cm Series: (Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842. Sciences physiques. Zoologie ; [4]) Bibliog./Index note: Table méthodique des mammif`eres et des oiseaux, p.412-444
Hist.Nat.Ois.-Mouches[Lesson,RP] Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches, ouvrage orne de planches dessinees et gravees pars les medilleurs artistes, et dedie Lesson, Rene Primevere Paris 1829-30 1829-30 Paris
Hist.Nat.Ois.-Mouches[Mulsant&Verreaux] Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches, ou colibris constituant la famille des Trochildes Mulsant, Etienne & Verreaux, Edouard 1873?-78 4 vol. 4to Lyon. issued as 16 livraisons 1-4 1873-4 5-8 1875-6 9-12 1876-7 13-16 1877-8 supplement 1879
Hist.Nat.Ois.Parad. Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Epimaques; &c. Lesson, R.P. 1834-35 Paris p.1-34 Synopsis pp.1-248 " Prob. 16 pts. 1-4 (pp.1-64) 1834; 5-7 (pp.65-112) 1835 "
Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. Histoire naturelle generale des pigeons et des gallinaces. Accompagne de planches anatomiques. Temminck, CJ [1770-1858] 1813-15 Amsterdam 3 vol. 8vo
Hist.Nat.Tangaras Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins et des todiers... Desmarest, Anselme-Gaëtan 1805-(1807) folio Paris. Zimmer (p.167) notes that Sherborn (Index Animalium Sect.2 Pt I p.XLLIII, 1922) cites Livrs. 1-4 1805 Livrs. 5-10 1806 Livrs. 11-12 1807
Hist.Nat.Trochil. Histoire naturelle des Trochilidae (Synopsis et catalogue) Simon, Eugene Louis 1921 Paris 4to pp.6+416
Hoch.Nordl.Deutsch-Ost-Afrika Die mittleren Hochla:nder des no:rdlichen Deutsch-Ost-Afrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Irangi-Expedition 1896-1897 nebst kurzer Reisebeschreibung. Im Auftrage der Irnagi-Gesellschaft herasusgegaben von dem Fu:her der Expedition. ... Werther, C. Waldemar [1867 - ??] 1898 Berlin H. Paetel. 493,[4] p.126 il. 7 pl. 2 maps in pocket.
Hornero El Hornero Revista de la Sociedad Ornitologica del Plata Para el Estudio Y Protección de las aves De la Argentina y Paises Vecinos v. 1- 1917/19- Buenos Aires, Asociacion Ornitologica del Plata. NOTES: Vols. 1-9 issued by the association under its earlier name, Sociedad Ornitologica del Plata.
Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of Birds of the World, 4th Ed. Volume 1. Dickinson, EC & Remsen, JV, Jr., Eds. 2013 Volume 2. Dickinson, EC & Christidis, L., Eds. 2014 [I am not sure in what sense this Checklist is "Complete". It contains some, but certainly not all, extict forms, and of course many undescribed forms are not included. I suppose "Partial Checklist of Birds of the World" would not be a marketer's dream.]
HummingBird The Humming Bird. A Monthly Scientific, Artistic and Industrial Review. Adolphe Boucard ed.1891-5 London Vol. II. No. 1 Jan., 1892 Vol. II. No. 2-12 Feb-Dec., 1892 (no.'s monthly) Vol. III. No. 1 Mar., 1893 Vol. III. No. 2 Jun., 1893 Vol. III. No. 3 Sep., 1893 Vol. III. No. 4 Dec., 1893 Vol. IV. No.1 Mar., 1894 Vol. IV. No.2 Jun., 1894 Vol. IV. No.3 Sep., 1894 Vol. IV. No.4 Dec., 1894 Vol. V. No.1 Mar., 1895 Vol. V. No.2 Jun., 1895 Vol. V. No.3 Sep., 1895 Vol. V. No.4 Dec., 1895 [finis]
