![Item #WRCLIT64750 BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE [with]: Stone, Lois Chambers: ANDREW JACKSON GRAYSON ... A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST & NATURALIST 1818 - 1869 ... WITH SPECIES ACCOUNTS OF FIELD NOTES BY ANDREW JACKSON GRAYSON, AND WITH CURRENT ORNITHOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATIONS. Arion Press, Andrew Jackson Grayson.](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT64750.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712354)
BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE [with]: Stone, Lois Chambers: ANDREW JACKSON GRAYSON ... A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST & NATURALIST 1818 - 1869 ... WITH SPECIES ACCOUNTS OF FIELD NOTES BY ANDREW JACKSON GRAYSON, AND WITH CURRENT ORNITHOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATIONS ....
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1986. Two volumes. Large folio (63.5 x 48 cm) and thick quarto. 156 color plates (and one b&w) laid into folding cloth portfolio, accompanied by the companion volume of text, cloth, gilt labels, in slipcase. Bookplate on each front pastedown, otherwise fine. Item #WRCLIT64750
First edition. One of 425 sets printed by Andrew Hoyem and associates. An ambitious and important undertaking, reproducing with great fidelity the 156 paintings by Grayson in the collections at the Bancroft Library. "Andrew Jackson Grayson, who came to San Francisco just before the Gold Rush, was inspired to paint by James John Audubon's Birds of America. He vowed to extend Audubon's visual record west, to include the Pacific Slope of California and Mexico. Bequeathed to the University of California in 1879 by Grayson's widow, his paintings became an important holding in The Bancroft Library, but remained largely unknown to the public. Lois Chambers Stone of Berkeley spent several years researching the biography of Grayson that accompanies the portfolio. The publication of this long-overlooked masterwork has now assured Grayson of a significant place in the history of American ornithology" - Publisher's blurb. Substantial shipping charges.
Price: $4,000.00