![LIST OF THE BIRDS OF ALASKA [Contained in:] TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54227.jpg?v=1522928311)
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.
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. 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...
![LONG-TAILED DUCK [OLDSQUAW]. [Pl. 312]. John James Audubon](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM33770.jpg?v=1491231039)
London: R. Havell, 1836. Handcolored engraving with aquatint and etching, 26 x 39 1/4 inches. Paper watermarked: "J. Whatman / 1836." Fine. A fine image contrasting the indolence of the two drakes (one in summer and one in winter plumage) as they bask contentedly on the rocks, with the industry...
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...
![PINNATED GROUSE [GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN]. [Pl. 186]. John James Audubon](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM37286.jpg?v=1488345129)
London: R. Havell, 1834. Handcolored engraving with aquatint and etching by R. Havell. Watermarked: "J. Whatman/1834." Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 38 1/2 inches. From the first edition of THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. One of Audubon's greatest images: against a background of western prairie land, a small incident of the...
![SPOTTED OR CANADA GROUSE. [SPRUCE GROUSE]. John James Audubon](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM27170.jpg?v=1496674113)
London. 1833. Handcolored engraving with aquatint and etching by R. Havell, 1833, paper watermarked "J. Whatman / 1836." Plate CLXXVI [176] from the first edition of THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. Sheet size: 37 3/4 x 25 3/8 inches. Two very small neatly repaired marginal tears, else very good. A fine...
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...
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by Way & Groff, 1799. xviii,24pp. Folio. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Rubbed. Neatly ex-lib. with bookplate on front pastedown and blindstamp on titlepage. Titlepage and last leaf of text browned, stab holes in inner gutter. Else very good, untrimmed. An important...
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 twelve handcolored engraved plates (including frontispiece and additional engraved titlepage). Half title. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and paper boards, rebacked in red calf. Binding rubbed and worn. Scattered foxing. Good. Most of the species illustrated are birds: American Gros Beak, Baltimore Oriole...
![ALBUM OF FIFTEEN WATERCOLORS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS, FRUIT, AND A BIRD]. Botanical Watercolors](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM34256.jpg?v=1541878566)
[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.....
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.
