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[Edinburgh & London. (1821-)1834(-1839)]. Original etched copper printing plate from ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY. Plate-maker's stamp on verso: "Willm. Pontifex Son & Co / No 46 / Shoe Lane London." [with:] An uncolored proof print from the plate. Very good. A fine original copper printing plate from "the finest and.....
London. 1953. 120pp. plus thirty-eight plates (including frontispiece, some in color). Large folio. Three quarter cloth and marbled boards. Very good. In slightly soiled pictorial dust jacket. A sumptuous ornithological reference reproducing examples from Audubon, Gould, Elliot, Catesby, and others. This has remained one of the primary reference tools in.....
[United States. ca. 1850?]. Four individual sheets, three matted and one mounted on card. Some scattered foxing, affecting two of the watercolors. Generally very good. Isaac Sprague (1811-95) was one of the most prolific and well-known illustrators of flora and fauna in 19th- century America. Stafleu & Cowan lists seven.....
Hollywood, Ca. Cooper Ornithological Club, 1914. 133pp. including a map. Printed wrappers. One-inch chip at toe of spine, splitting along the lower joints, rubbed. Pencil notes in margins. Still a very good copy. Lists 362 birds and their status, as residents of or migrants to the state. Also includes a......
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. 20,[2],133-507,[1],977-89, plus fifteen chromolithographs. Quarto. Later green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Minute off-setting to plates. Overall internally clean. Very good. The third chapter of the fifth volume of the Wheeler survey, discussing the birds of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. The text was.....
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1790. [18],299,[40]pp., including [4]pp. publisher's advertisements, plus sixty-five engraved plates. Engraved titlepage. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and paper-covered boards, spine decoratively gilt in panels, with red morocco label. Small label at foot of spine, red ink stamp (Röttger Graf von Veltheim) on verso of titlepage.....
[ Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1871]. Colored copper plate engraving, 10 1/2 x 13 inches (exclusive of margins). A couple small chips and tiny edge tears. Image perfect. Very good and clean. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. Handsome print from the 1871 Porter & Coates edition of Wilson's.....
Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1808-1814. Nine volumes. Seventy-six engravings, with excellent hand-coloring. Folio. Contemporary marbled boards, expertly backed to original style in red calf, spine gilt. Some light wear to text leaves. Moderate to heavy foxing and offsetting from plates, as usual with this work, but far better than typical.....
New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co. and Harrison Hall, 1828-1829. Three octavo text volumes, plus large folio atlas volume. Text includes 4pp. subscribers list at rear of third volume. Atlas with seventy-six handcolored engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by A. Lawson (52), J.G. Warnicke (21), G. Murray.....
New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co. and Harrison Hall, 1828-1829. Three quarto text volumes plus folio atlas volume. Text: cxcix,[1],230,[1]; 456 [without a leaf number vii-viii, as usual]; vi,396pp., 4pp. subscribers list at rear of third volume. Atlas: Seventy-six handcolored engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by A......
[Washington]. Jan. 20, 1915. [1]p. Map. Folio, about fine. The establishment of the Ediz Hook Reservation. Rough map depicts location of the refuge near the north shore of the state of Washington.
Washington. 1915. [1]p. plus plate. Folio. Fine. Sets aside Dungess Spit, Washington, as a bird refuge.
London. [1795]. Four volumes. 4,viii,[7],591; [4],493; [4],525; [4],415,95,9pp., plus engraved frontispiece in each volume, seventeen engraved plates, and four folding letterpress tables. Publisher's original grey paper backstrips and blue paper boards, paper labels. Minor shelf wear. First volume has a small repaired tear to 3D3v, and 3D4 torn along top.....
