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Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover detached. Half leather binding with edges showing wear. Edges of leather spine show some chipping. Previous owner's name on inside front cover with another previous owner's name on 3rd white page dated 1893. ; Internally very clean and bright with all plates present and very bright and tissue guards intact. Shipping will be extra for this large and heavy book, please inquire. ; 9 1/2 x 12 "; 300 pages.
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chromo-lithograph plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 300 pages; 1882 J. A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia. 1st edition. Soundly bound in period 1/2 pebbled leather and marbled paper covered boards. Boards are thick and heavy with beveled edges. Spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands; compartments detailed with extra gilt and bands rolled. All edges gilt. Illustrated with 51 chromolithograph color plates together with chromo title page, all with tissue guards intact and neat. Chromolitho title page bright and clean but tissue guard foxed. Light scuffing and rubbing to leather over the joints, corners and raised bands. Corners with bumping and rub through of the leather. Some signatures starting. Plates are generally quite fresh and bright with a few scattered plates exhibiting light foxing to plate and heavier foxing to tissue guard. Pages 82 -84 and Plate XV have an instance of soling mid page, almost imperceptible on the plate. Superficial toning to page stock edges and some mild offsetting from the plates to adjacent leaves of text (despite tissue guards). Table of contents lists several (4) preliminary plates, only 1 of which is present in this copy. Sound and clean. About VG
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$680.00 + shipping
Description: Full color drawings with tissue protection. From a private club library with the only marks being a stamp on the back of each plate. 50 species covered with text and plates. With the exception of the stamps, the book is very good plus.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Thomas G. Gentry. Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States. J. A. Wagenseller, Philadelph, 1882.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full leather. Illustrated with fifty beautiful chromolithographs. Binding has been professionally repaired. Neat gift inscription on front free blank dated 1889.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
GENTRY, Thomas. NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. J. A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia, 1882.
Price: US$1187.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's decorated cloth, lacking the spine which is here covered with binder's tape. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, a detailed chromolithographic title page, and 54 gorgeous chromolithographs of birds and their nests with eggs, all protected with a tissue guard. Bennett (p. 44): "Drawings done chiefly by Mr. Edwin Sheppard of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, acknowledged as the best ornithological artist in America." Rear cover split and loose but holding; plates vary from clean to lightly foxed. Very Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine condition small folio exquisitely rebound by Starr Bookworks in marbled boards and half-leather. This book will incur additionally shipping charges. Please inquire. ; Folio - over 12" - 15"
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
GENTRY, Thomas. NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. J. A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia, 1882.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's full gilt-decorated red morocco leather with silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Illustrated with a detailed chromolithographic title page and 54 gorgeous chromolithographs of birds and their nests with eggs, all protected with tissue guards. Bennett (p. 44): "Drawings done chiefly by Mr. Edwin Sheppard of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, acknowledged as the best ornithological artist in America." Fine, bright copy in a lovely binding with only a few minor rubs
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.