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Description: Brown library buckram. iv, pp. 1-156, plus monochrome plates 1-37 with tissue guards. Marbled page edges. Intended as a companion volume to "Studer's Popular Ornithology: The Birds of North America" Good+ Lacking plates A-D. Ex-library copy with ink stamps and perforated stamps, including on title page. Each plate has an ink stamp as well, overlapping the image.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 3/4 Leather with five raised bands. iv, pp. 1-156, followed by plates A-D, and plates 1-37. There are also tipped-in at the rear two plates by Audubon: White Headed Eagle, and Purple Grackle, both of which are exquisitely colored. An odd volume, apparently. Spine title is "Birds of North America", then in a lower compartment says "Vol. II Ornithology" no other marks. Probably a less well-known companion book to "Studer's Popular Ornithology: The Birds of North America", which might have been volume 1. The Audubon Plates are bound in at the rear and measure about 11.15" x 14.5". The book measures 12" x 15" and is quite attractive by itself. All plates native to this volume are tissue-guarded. Another bookseller (MW Books) has presented this explanation for this volume: Originally issued in 40 pts. On completion pts. 1-39 were divided, the first 4 p. of each pt. and all text of pt. 40 were bound to form one volume; the last 4 p. of pts. 1-39 and extra indexes, etc., from pt. 40, were bound to form THIS volume. The origin of the two Audubon prints is unknown, and the Purple Grackle is glued to the inside of the rear cover, and has begun to tear in the middle section where someone (other than myself.) tried to remove it. VG, piece missing from top of title partially obliterating the word Ornithology (Ornit.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Red library buckram. 182 pp with 119 interleaved, tissue-guarded color lithographed plates, preceded (before the title page) by an extensive index of 8pp. Gilt page edges. It seems as if this first printing from 1878 has the superior presentation of color plates compared to the later editions. Overall VG-. Some wear to cloth, including some ripping at top of spine. Ex-library, with bookplate, perforated and ink stamps on title page, and ink stamp on bottom page edges. Some tissue guards folded. Plate 3 is missing a corner (only affects margin, not image). A set of pages near the end is folded at the corner, with the crease most extreme on p 167, Plates are clean and intact.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Sturdy black library buckram. 182 pp with 119 interleaved, tissue-guarded color lithographed plates, preceded (before the title page) by an extensive index of 8pp. "Ornithology; Or, the Science of Birds" was also published by Studer in 1878. It seems as if these two volumes were intended to form a set, based on what I see in other entries and descriptions, but this is definitely the better-known half. It also seems as if this first printing from 1878 has the superior presentation of color plates compared to the later editions. Overall VG, with the notable and large exception of the circular ink ownership stamp on every single color plate. Ink stamp to top and bottom of text block. Sold as a reference copy only, not as a collectible book.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, Columbus, Ohio: Jacob H. Studer & Co., 1878. First editions, issued as "Studer's Popular Ornithology". Publisher's three-quarter brown leather, lettered and decorated in gilt, and lighter brown leather boards, elaborately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. Both volumes are entitled "The Birds of North America". Volume I: "Drawn and colored from life by Theodore Jasper, A.M., M.D., one hundred and nineteen colored plates (inserted chromolithographs, with tissue guards) representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds, including a popular account of their habits and characteristics." Inserted plates with tissue guards, 182 pages of text, with two indexes (common names and scientific names). Volume II: "From the text of Dr. Brehm, with two hundred and twelve illustrations (on 39 inserted duotone plates, typically several birds per plate, with tissue guards) by Theodore Jasper, A.M., M.D.", 156 pages of text. Dr. Brehm was probably the German Alfred Edmund Brehm, a zoologist and zoo-keeper who wrote "The Life of Birds", 1861. This volume II, "The Science of Birds", does not limit discussion to the birds of North America. Both volumes collate complete. Large and very heavy volumes, 15 inches tall x 11 1/2 wide. Leather with some abrasions, especially on the fore-corners, front and back, of V.I. Both rubbed at spine edges and tips. The binding perfectly sound. A little light foxing to a minority of plates, pictures sent upon request. Extra postage will be required. A Very Good copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Description: Sturdy black library buckram. 182 pp with 119 interleaved, tissue-guarded color lithographed plates, followed by an extensive index of 8pp. This is followed, then by the second book listed above described as follows: Title-page, blank verso, 2 pp. Contents, 2 pp. Index of Illustrations, 41 full-page color plates interleaved within 156 pp. of text. The second book was also published by Studer in 1878. It seems as if these two volumes were intended to form a set, based on what I see in other entries and descriptions. It also seems as if this first printing from 1878 has the superior presentation of color plates compared to the later editions. Get this one as a superb reference set. Overall VG, with the notable and large exception of the blindstamps on every single color plate. Ink stamp to top and bottom of text block. Sold as a reference copy only, not as a collectible book. Overall the blindstamps are quite well hidden in the background and not noticable upon the initial viewing of the plates. Most have to be examined in detail before even seeing these blindstamps.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete two volume set. 38 x 30.5 cm. Folio. [10] 182pp, 119 colored plates. [6] 156pp followed by 4 anatomical plates lettered A-D and 37 numbered plates. Bound into 1/2 brown leather with gilt spine lettering. Second volume is titled "Ornithology or, the Science of Birds. From the text of Dr. Brehm". The plates in volume 1 are in color while the plates in volume 2 are sepia toned. Each plate has a tissue guard. Marble endpapers. Index of common and scientific plates. First editions like this offered set have noticeably higher quality images than later printings. There is a small stain to the bottom of the first 5 plates in volume 1, this stain does not quite reach the images. Plate "D" in volume 2 has a closed tear down approximately half of the image. Some scuffing and fraying to the boards.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two Vols. complete; original half-calf over cloth covered boards, raised bands, gilt titles, all edges gilt, (12 x 14.5 in.). 182, 156 text pages; Illustrated by 119 full-page, tissue protected, chromolithograph (colored) plates in volume one and 41 lithograph plates in volume two, representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds, including a popular account of their habits and characteristics, drawn and colored from nature by Theodore Jasper. Expected exterior wear and rubbing, joints tender, internally plates clean and bright. Size: Folio
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1538.49 + shipping
Description: Folio. 5 Bl., 182 S.: 119 chromolithographierte Farbtafeln; 3 Bl., 156 S., 1 w. Bl.: 41 getönte lithographierte Tafeln. Dekorativer brauner Original-Halblederband mit Rückentitel und figürlicher Rückenverzierung in Goldprägung, goldgeprägtem Titel auf Vorderdeckel, Lederecken, Ganzgoldschnitt, etwas berieben, Leder mit wenigen Schabstellen, Vorderdeckelbezug etwas wellig, Ecken leicht bestossen. 1. Ausgabe. - Studer's Popular Ornithology. Die schönen Tafeln zeigen Vögel und Vogelgruppen mit Landschaft. Der zweite Teil enthält auch vier anatomische Tafeln. Teils etwas stockfleckig, Vorsätze, Anfang und Schluß etwas stärker; die Tafeln meist nur im Rand etwas stock- und fingerfleckig, die erste Tafel (als Frontispiz) etwas stärker, wenige Tafeln mit kurzem Einriss im leeren Unterrand. Insgesamt gutes Exemplar. - - - - - - Description in English: 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. 5 leaves, 182 pages: 119 color lithographed plates; 3 leaves, 156 pages, 1 blank leaf: 41 duotone lithographed plates. Original brown half morocco with decoratively gilt lettering and motifs on spine, gilt lettering title on front cover, morocco corners, full gilt edges, partly somewhat rubbed, corners little worn, paper of front cover somewhat waving. First edition. With beautiful decorative plates of birds and groups of birds within landscape, in the second part also 4 anatomical plates. Partly minor foxing, mostly in margins, the plates only in margins partly spotted, the first (as frontispiece) some more, a few plates with a short tear in the lower margin. All in all a good copy. - - - - - - Nissen 473 and 474; Zimmer 333.
Seller: Antiquariat Scheppler & Müller, Eggstätt, Germany
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Two folio (11-3/4" x 15") volumes bound in publisher's half morocco leather with matching morocco corners. The first volume illustrated with 119 lovely chromolithographs drawn and colored from nature by Theodore Jasper; the second volume with 37 tinted lithographs. One of the best, as well as one of the last, great color-illustrated ornithologies. Later editions, especially the 1903 edition, have noticeably inferior quality plates. Contents fresh, one long closed tear to a text page in the second volume. Rubbing with some splitting to the leather along the spine edge of the front cover of the first volume but covers firm. Some loss of cloth to the second volume. Very Good with clean, bright plates
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, (14 1/3 x 11 inches). Fine lithographed frontispiece, 118 lithographed plates, tissue guards present (one or two spots). Original publisher's full brown calf, the front cover elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, the spine in six compartment with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two and decorated in the rest, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt (rebacked to style, corners repaired). First book edition. With 119 consecutively number plates depicting over 700 species and varieties of American birds. Jacob Henry Studer was a printer, lithographer, painter, and popular ornithologist active in Columbus, Ohio from the 1860s to the 1880s. A member of the American Ornithologists' Union, Studer arranged the birds in this book according to that group's classification scheme. Known as "the poor man's Audubon," this was the first large-format illustrated bird identification book that was affordable for a wider audience. It is fitting, therefore, that the medium employed was lithography, "the democratic art." The plates were made from drawings by Theodore Jasper (1814-1897), a portrait painter and photographic colorist who was active in New York and Connecticut from the 1840s to the 1860s, and in Columbus, Ohio from c. 1866 to 1883. A very attractive copy. Nissen 473.
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.