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Author: Audubon, John James
Title: Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:J.T. Bowen
Date Published: 1840-44
Description: Hand-colored lithograph by J.T. Bowen after painting by John James Audubon. (Royal Octavo) 25.9x17 cm (10¼x6¾").Plate 256 from fascicle 52 in the Royal Octavo edition. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service who keep the endangered species list "The ivory-billed woodpecker is a charismatic species of large woodpecker. It was listed in 1967 as endangered under precursor to the ESA, the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. The last commonly agreed upon sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker is in April 1944 on the Singer Tract in the Tensas River region of northeast Louisiana. Primary threats to it are the loss of mature forest habitat and widespread collection of the species for its feathers and parts."

One edge rough where removed from binding, a few hints of foxing, some offsetting from text bleeding through from verso; very good.