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T.M. Brewer's edition of Wilson's American Ornithology

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T.M. Brewer's edition of Wilson's American Ornithology

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Heading: (Wilson, Alexander)
Author: Brewer, T.M.
Title: Wilson's American Ornithology with Notes by Jardine: To Which Is Added a Synopsis of American Birds, Including Those Described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson
Place Published: New York
Publisher:H.S. Samuels
Date Published: 1852
Description: viii, 746 pp. Extra chromolithograph title page. Illustrated throughout with chromolithographed plates, some finished by hand. (8vo) 22.5x14 cm (9x5½"), quarter-morocco and cloth rebacked with modern buckram, spine lettered in gilt.Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814–1880) was an American ornithologist and publisher. He was co-author of the 1874 3-volume A History of North American Birds. Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) published his landmark text American Ornithology by subscription in 9 volumes from 1808-1814.

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