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Over one hundred chromolithograph plates: Heading: Author: Wilson, Alexander and Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte Title: American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States Place Published: London Publisher:Chatto

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Bonaparte continues Wilson's Ornithology

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Heading: (Ornithology)
Author: Bonaparte, Charles Lucien
Title: American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of Birds inhabiting the Unites States, not given by Wilson
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Samuel Augustus Mitchell; Carey, Lea & Carey; Carey & Lea
Date Published: 1825-1833
Description:

4 volumes. With 27 hand-colored engraved plates; tissue guards. (Folio) 37.5x27.2 cm (14½x10¾"), period half red morocco & marbled boards. First Edition.

Bonaparte's important continuation of Alexander Wilson's work, the first volume bearing the Mitchell imprint, which Bennett notes "appeared on only a very few copies and indicates a rare first issue... This admirable supplement to Wilson is in the same format as the original nine volume series, and is regarded as an essential part of the work, the whole being the most important work on American birds prior to Audubon" - ; Bennett, p. 16.

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Rubbing and extremity wear to covers, joints rubbed and tender, spine of Vol. IV with some damage; Vol. I very clean internally with only faint offset from the plates to adjacent pages and tissue guards; other volumes with more severe foxing to some of the text leaves, some darkening, some plates with offset from the text and moderate darkening; lacking some tissue guards; overall very good.

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