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American School, 19th century. Sterna Elegans. J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, 1860.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Lithograph and engraving with handcoloring in watercolor on white wove paper, 11 1/2 x 9 inches (290 x 230 mm) (Sheet), full margins. Chip at each of the corners, and at the left sheet edge, all well outside of image area. A single plate from The Birds of North America; the descriptions of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution / by Spencer F. Baird; with the cooperation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. With an atlas of one hundred plates, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.,1860.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: (11 1/2 x 9 inches). TEXT VOLUME ONLY. Publisher's purple cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, some fading and wear An important American work of ornithology by two of the foremost American ornithologists of the 19th century. The chief virtue of this spectacular contribution to the literature of American ornithology is that it completes the work started by the first octavo edition of John James Audubon's Birds of America (1840-1844) and continued by John Cassin's IIlustrations of the Birds of California, Texas [etc.] (([1853]-56). As Baird notes in the preface: "the first series [of Cassin's work], containing fifty species not given by Audubon, was completed in 1855, and has not been extended, having been superceded by the present work" (Preface, p.I, Atlas vol.). "The present work is part of the General Report on North American birds . published in October, 1858, as one of the series of "Reports of Explorations and Surveys of a Railroad Route to the Pacific Ocean." In this volume, however, will be found many important additions and corrections, including descriptions of newly-discovered species, &c, not in the original edition. Bennet p.7; Meisel III, p.484; Sabin 2809.
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 3/4 brown leather, with bands to spine. red cloth inside leather corners. back mostly red cloth. Beautiful colored plates in Vol 2. tables and charts. usual wear and tear, minor, to book covers.gorgeous textured greenish end papers. a lovely set.
Seller: Allison Robinson Books, DUXBURY, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. With an Atlas of 100 fine hand-colored plates. Folio, publisher's blind-embossed pebbled cloth. First edition. Volume I is lacking pp. vii-xvi, consisting of the "Explanation of Plates," which was never bound into this volume, but does appear in Vol. II of this set (pp. vii-xii); and "Systematic List of Illustrations (pp. xiii-xvi), which does not appear in this set at all. Bookplate in each volume; spines slightly sunned; minor use at corners; a beautiful set, the plates absolutely clean and bright.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.