![LIST OF THE BIRDS OF ALASKA [Contained in:] TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54227.jpg?v=1593711900)
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.....
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.
New York. 1926. 349pp. Mezzotint portrait by Cruikshank. Original cloth. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, else clean and very good. This is one of forty-two special large paper copies with a 19th-century mezzotint portrait of Audubon by Cruikshank inserted as the frontispiece. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining.....
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.
New York. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slightest shelf wear. 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.....
Ardsley. 1979. 26pp. Facsimiles. Frontis. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Near fine. From an edition limited to 400 copies, signed by the editor, Michael Zinman. This volume presents, for the first time, two widely differing texts by the famous naturalist.
Edinburgh. 1831-1839. Five volumes. A few in-text illustrations. Half title in each volume. Large, thick octavos. Modern buckram, printed paper labels. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light foxing, primarily to first and last few leaves. Tear in half title of second volume, repaired with tape.....
Houston. 1982. Unpaginated. Numerous illustrations. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Very good. Illustrated Christie's auction catalogue for a sale of a broken set Audubon bird prints. With realized prices laid in.
New York. 1993. ix,302,[1]pp. Illustrated mostly in color. Folio. Softcover. Fine. A beautifully illustrated volume based on the original Audubon bird watercolors in the collection of the New- York Historical Society.
Norman. [ 1964]. 488,[1]pp. Color frontis. Illus. Cloth. Fine. In slightly worn dust jacket. Biography of the famed naturalist.
Baltimore: Williams & Watkins Company, 1925. xxi,[1],146pp., plus folding map and 76 color plates. Quarto. Original brown faux leather, front board and spine gilt. Light edge and spine wear. Later gift inscription, ownership and bookseller's labels on front free endpapers. Light tanning to text, plates fine. About very good, overall.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892/1895. Two volumes. viii,446pp. plus twelve chromolithographic plates; viii,[1],518pp. plus seven chromolithographic plates. Large quarto. Contemporary back cloth, spines gilt. Spines worn, edges torn on spine of first volume. Boards rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on fly leaf. Some very minor foxing, else quite clean internally. Very.....
Philadelphia: Published by John Grigg, 1828. 179pp. plus ten (of twelve) handcolored engraved plates. Engraved titlepage. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and paper covered boards. Lacks the frontispiece plate of American Gros Beak and Baltimore Oreole [sic], and the plate of the American Snow Owl, and pages 29-32. Closed tear at the.....
![ALBUM OF FIFTEEN WATERCOLORS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS, FRUIT, AND A BIRD]. Botanical Watercolors](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM34256.jpg?v=1593711505)
[American. n.d., ca. 1850]. Fifteen watercolors total, heightened with gum arabic, ranging in size from 2 x 2 inches, to 7 x 6 inches. The illustrations are bordered either by lace or gilt and affixed to colored paper, or are done on a sheet with a lithographic border. Interleaved with.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. Two volumes. [2],422,3-78; [2],423-848,79-182pp. Half titles. Oblong folios. Original green cloth, gilt- lettered covers and spines. Second volume with minor wear and staining to cloth. Bright and clean. Near fine. A substantial work of ornithological and arboreal art. The explanatory text offers a brief.....
Philadelphia. 1961. 319pp. Original green cloth with decorative gilt and stamping. In dust jacket. Dust jacket bumped and torn, else very good. A biography of Alexander Wilson, considered to be the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. viii,298,[2]pp. plus fifty handcolored lithographs, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia (eighteen after George G. White, thirty-two drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock). Original tan publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners rubbed. Modern bookplates on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1853-1856. Ten parts bound in one volume. viii,298pp. plus fifty handcolored lithographs, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, eighteen after George G. White, thirty-two drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock. Original illustrated wrappers bound into contemporary three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt.....
Dallas: The Encino Press, 1965. vii,27,[1]pp. Original cloth, printed label on front cover. Fine in original card-stock slipcase. From an edition limited to 550 copies. This sketch of Bob More, an oil man with a Texas-sized passion for bird eggs, first appeared in the SOUTHWEST REVIEW for Autumn 1941...
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910/14. Two volumes. 501; 719pp. color plates included in pagination. Maps. Tables. Thick quarto. Original green cloth. A solid, very good set. This is apparently an early issue, with the plates on card stock, making each volume thicker and heavier than later.....
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910/14. Two volumes. 501; 719pp. color plates included in pagination. Maps. Tables. Thick quarto. Original green cloth. A solid, very good set. Massive work on ornithology of New York, with distribution information, maps, and county tables listing bird species found within. The.....
New York: D. Appleton & Co., [1861-]1863. 1p. dedication to Philip Lutley Sclater, 1p. list of subscribers. Thirty-one fine handcolored lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, after Elliot (24), Paul Louis Oudart (4), E. Maubert (1), A. Mesnel (1), and one unsigned, drawn on stone by C.P. Tholey and others.....
Dublin. 1749. xvi,152pp. Lacks the map. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Upper foredge corner of first five leaves carefully repaired, text unaffected. Some internal soiling. Overall still very good. Later Dublin edition, after the first and second London editions. "The first part contains a synopsis of twenty-three English voyages.....
