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Price: US$299.74 + shipping
Description: NEAR FINE condition. INTERNAL condition: FINE (scarce in this condition !). FOLIO dark brown half-leather binding with bright gold cover titling and full gilt edging. (Noted on the pre-Frontis 'Announcement' page as one of the binding options offered by the publisher.) Acclaimed ornithologist Jacob Studer (1840-1904), Curator of the American Ornithologists Union. 119 IMMACULATE COLOR PLATES (11.5"x14.75") brilliant colors, totally free of foxing, with corresponding text detailing birds characteristics, habitats, including color differences of mating pairs. MANY SPECIES ARE NOW EXTINCT AND NO LONGER DESCRIBED IN ORNITHOLOGY CATALOGS. Paging is: (8), 182pp, (index). Tissued Frontis of Studer portrait. Desirable HIGH GRADE COLLECTIBLE EDITION, next to last pressing before the final 1903 printing (Studer died in 1904). Excellent for gifting or for your own Rare Books collection. SPECIAL PRICING for the Quality. *** NOTE: Sorry, USA ORDER with MEDIA MAIL USPS DELIVERY - ONLY! - OVERSIZED BOOK. NO INTERNATIONAL ORDERS due to excessive postal costs. *** [Folio Shelf - Oversized Books]
Seller: Sierra Rose Antiques, Minden, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tall folio. 182 p. : ill., port. ; 40 x 32 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's 3/4 leather, rebacked and restored. Generally clean, unmarked pages. All edges gilt. Chip missing from the announcement page. "The original drawings for the work made from nature by Theodore Jasper . Revised by John Graham Bell . The systematic table . was prepared by Frank M. Chapman." This is anr ed of Vol I. Nissen 473 This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
STUDER, Jacob H.. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. , 1897.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: [ORNITHOLOGY] STUDER, Jacob H., ed. THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. One hundred and nineteen artistic colored plates representing the different species and varities, drawn and colored from nature. New York: The Natural Science Association of America, 1897. Illustrated with color lithographs. Folio. Ex-library. Partially disbound: leather boards detached and backstrip is lacking. Bookblock is sound and both text and illustrations are clean, but the title-page and plates are embossed in blind with a library stamp. Still, a serviceable copy with all text and plates present.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Studer, Jacob H.. THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. The Natural Science Association Of America, 1897.
Price: US$859.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1897. Very good condition with no wrapper. Re-issue. 119 artistic colored plates (lithographs) representing the different species and varieties drawn and colored from nature including a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on observations made in the field by the most eminent writers on ornithology prefaced by a systematic table and index to page, plate and figure. Very large format. Full red morocco binding with gilt title to front and spine. All edges gilt. 182 pages plus index. Spine faded, edges rubbed, a few scuff marks to front & rear board. Corners worn. Front joint between title page and frontis pulled. Some scattered foxing. A few closed margin tears. Some grubby margin marks (fingering). All plates present and beautifully bright. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom