Paris. 1616. [8],375,[16] leaves. Early vellum. Titlepage slightly worn at fore-edge. Scattered light soiling. Slight worming in gutter, not affecting text; two wormholes through last few leaves, minutely affecting text in spots. Bookplate of famous collector Alberto Parreno on verso of final leaf. Generally very good. Fourth French edition of...

Chicago. 1869. [2],[133]-337,viii,iv pp. plus portrait frontispiece and fourteen plates (some colored). Original printed wrappers, chipped, spine partially perished. Faint institutional stamp on front wrapper. Very good, with nice, clean plates. In a half morocco box. One of the rarest American color plate books, and among the earliest ornithological representations.....

Boston. 1848. 247pp. Frontis. Illus. Half title. Original printed boards. Boards sunned, lower half of backstrip lacking and top half torn but cords sound, bookplate. Dampstained throughout, some scattered foxing, else internally good. "Second edition - enlarged." Includes a history of the vine, directions for its culture and propagation. Indexed.

Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1737 [i.e. 1736]. [16]pp. Stitched. Final page soiled, else text quite clean. Final page strengthened at foredge, repaired along gutter. Overall, very good. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames' run of almanacs predated Benjamin Franklin's POOR...

Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1743 [i.e 1742]. [16]pp. Stitched. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Some loss in margins of three leaves, affecting a few letters in one leaf of the calendar. About very good. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames'...

Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1746 [i.e. 1745]. [16]pp. Stitched. Text tanned. Good. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames' run of almanacs predated Benjamin Franklin's POOR RICHARD'S by eight years. Ames had a long and notable career, producing popular and highly-regarded...

Cambridge. 1924. vii,102pp. plus forty-one colored plates. Quarto. Original red cloth. Small white paint spot on lower front cover. Bookplate. Else clean and very good. Beautiful color plates of bird watercolors done by the author, including sandpipers, plovers, etc.

Maplewood. 1967. xvi,307pp. Cloth. Very good. In slightly torn dust jacket. Includes 150 color prints by Audubon and his son of American Quadrupeds.

Boston. March 23, 1833. [3]pp., with integral address leaf, on a folded folio sheet. Previously folded, with old separations along folds expertly repaired with no loss of text. A few very small edge chips. Paper restored where it had been torn away by breaking of seal. Light tanning, slight discoloration...

New York: J.J. Audubon, 1842. Lithograph, handcolored, by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 27 3/8 inches. Very good. A fine image of the American Wildcat, one of the best images from the greatest illustrated natural history work to be produced in America during the 19th century...

London. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slight shelf wear. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.

Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831-1835. Various paginations. Modern three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some unobtrusive ink underlining on titlepage. Minor foxing and age-toning. Very good. These extracts from ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY pull together in one volume all sixty of the short travel...

London. 1829. Double elephant folio print, framed. Near fine condition. Audubon's depiction of the Mississippi Kite appeared in 1829 as plate 117 in THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. This plate aroused considerable debate at the time, because many natural historians were quick to note the similarity between the lower of the...