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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 and Windus
Date Published: 1876
Description:
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 and Windus
Date Published: 1876
Description:
3 volumes. Notes by Sir William Jardine. Illustrated with 100 (of 103) chromolithograph plates after the hand-colored originals. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm (8¾x5½"), publisher's green morocco-backed red cloth-covered boards, pictorial gilt spines, top edges gilt.
Wilson and Bonaparte's work represents the most ambitious comprehensive 19th century undertaking of American ornithology, apart from Audubon's. Missing plates are nos. 17, 26, and 46.
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Rubbing at ends of slightly sunned spines with a few tears at crowns, some corners bumped, rubbing to cloth; hinges cracked, rear free endpaper of Vol. I excised, one leaf in Vol. II detached and laid in, some toning from laid-in newspaper clippings; good.
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