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1166461459.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1832B7064London: Whittaker Treacher & Arnot. 1832. Binding: Calf boards backed in morocco. Uppers with blind framing and Trinity College Cambridge gilt stamps. Spines with 5 raised bands gilt lettering in compartments 2 3 and 5 remaining decorated in gilt with 3 different bird motifs stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. Notes: Regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon Alexander Wilson 1766 –1813 was a Scottish-American poet ornithologist naturalist and illustrator. George Ord dubbed him the “Father of American Ornithologyâ€<br><br> Size: 8vo. 220 x 145 mm. Illustration: Very good example of this set complete in 3 volumes. Complete with 98 brightly handcoloured plates including frontispiece of Wilson in vol I lovely handcoloured bird frontispieces in vols II and III. Illustrations are dynamic and expressive depicting birds hunting or with kill including other birds with young in flight etc. Vol I front hinge split after title. Volume: 3 volumes Pages: Vol I Blank 2. Half title. Blank 2. Frontispiece. Title. Printer’s imprint. Contents v-vii. Blank. Life of Alexander Wilson ix-cvii. Blank 2. Pp. 1-408 pp. Blank 2. Vol II Blank 2. Half title. Blank 2. Frontispiece. Title. Printer’s imprint. Contents iii-vii. Blank. Pp. 1-390. Blank 2 Vol III Blank 3. Frontispiece. Title. Printer’s imprint. Contents iii-viii. Pp. 1-521. Blank 3. Category: Book Natural History; Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot. hardcover
1831106682Edinburgh: Constable & Co 1831. Hard cover. Very good/No jacket. Four volume set. Bound in leather with marbled endpapers and fore edges. Each in its own slipcase.<br /> <br /> Covers shelf-worn with some scuffing on spines. Hinges are cracked but attached and bindings are secure. Includes black and white illustrations. Some foxing but all text and images are clear and bright. Constable & Co unknown
000255London Paris New York: Cassell Petter and Galpin. Half Leather. Very Good/N/A. Wilson Peale and Rider. The Illustrative Notes of Wilson by Sir William Jardine. Brown leather spines and corners with gilt embossing and lettering on the spine. Marble to 1/2 boards end papers and papers edges. All chromolithographs in all volumes are present and all well preserved. The bottoms of each board in each volume has rubbing. Volumes 1 and 3 have moderate rubbing to leather volume 2 has minimal rubbing. Inside each board is a nice black and white book plate illustrated with a bird and the name James McDonald. <br/> <br/> Cassell Petter and Galpin hardcover
1878K094Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1878. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A near fine hardcover in the origInal binding rebacked. All edges gilt. Popular Edition three volumes in one. Part I Includes section of b&w engraved plates 76 by Wilson and 27 by Bonaparte. Most reduced in size to four per page. Vol. I 214 pp; Vol. II 390 pp.; Vol. III 426 pp. Includes Spencer F. Baird's 'Catalogue of North American Birds.' One page Editor's Preface to this edition apparently lacking. Porter & Coates hardcover
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18321156177London: Whittaker Treacher & Arnot 1832. Hard cover. Fair/No jacket. Three volume set. Illustrated with black and white engravings.<br /> <br /> Cover boards are soiled and worn along edges. Front hinge of Volume I is cracked but cover remains attached to spine. Cover of volume III is detached Each volume's binding is secure. Text blocks are tanned and foxed with foxing visible in the margins of some pages but engravings are bright and text is unmarked and legible.<br /> <br /> As is. Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot unknown
183160558Edinburgh: Constable and Co. 1831. 3/4 leather. very good. 4 Volumes. 24mo. 6" x 4". Frontispieces in each volume frontispiece for volume 1 is bound in before the introduction. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over green cloth. Red leather title labels. Four raised bands. Marble endpapers and edges. Some occasional foxing. Corners slightly bumped. Bookplates of former owner in front pastedowns of each volume. Name of another prior owner in each volume. A handsome set. This is the first European edition of Wilson's American Birds. Originally published in America in 9 vols in quarto. The first three volumes are arranged to be accessible to the general reader and the ornithologist. Volume 1 is prefixed by a biographical memoir by Mr. Hetherington. The fourth volume contains the American Ornithology of Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte. Besides the frontispieces these works do not reproduce any of the plates from the original. Constable and Co. unknown
1020395117.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1825823871825. BONAPARTE Charles Lucian. American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds Inhabiting the United States Not Given by Wilson. With Figures Drawn Engraved and Coloured from Nature. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Carey 1825-1833. 1st ed. 4 Volumes. Folio. vi 2 105; vii 3 95; 4 60; 4 142 pp. 27 plates. In orig. morocco-backed boards with corners. Collates complete. Vols. 1 3 & 4 have been rebacked in morocco with backstrips laid down. Boards are rubbed. Contents are moderately foxed and toned as usual particularly Vol. 4. A few leaves with short closed tear to the margin. Final several leaves of Vol. 4 with dampstaining to the fore-edge margin. Remarkably the hand-colored plates are free of foxing and very clean. A very good set in slipcases. Bennett p. 16. Sabin 6264. In this work Bonaparte finished what Alexander Wilson started in his monumental work of the same title-and the first such work by an American. Of Bonaparte's work Bennett writes "This admirable supplement to Wilson is in the same format as the original 9 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 and a collectors' item of absolutely basic importance" p. 16. This set is almost invariably found foxed as here with pronounced foxing to Vols. 1 2 & 4 while much milder in Vol. 3. But the plates in this set many retaining their tissue guards are remarkably bright. unknown
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182571529Philadelphia:: Carey Lea & Carey 1825-1833. First edition. old half red morocco over marbled boards. There is some offsetting foxing particularly to the tissue overleaves and age-toning particularly to Vols. II-IV as is usually the case. This discoloration affects the text primarily; the lovely plates are largely free of it. Light rubbing to the bindings; all are tight and sound. . Folio. Illustrated with 32 hand-colored engraved plates. Additional postage applicable for this set of oversized volumes. Carey, Lea & Carey, hardcover
51-4266Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Carey: London: John Miller 1825-1828. Original editions. 3 volumes of 4 large 4to 375 x 288: 1 f. vi pp. 1 f. 105 pp. 9 plates; vii 1 f. 95 pp. 6 plates; 1 f. 60 pp. 1 f. 6 plates. Red half-morocco with corners gilt castors smooth spine decorated contemporary binding. Bindings solid but rubbed with surface losses. The 21 color plates in fresh condition but text pages browned in vols. 2 and 3. Sitwell Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 1990 p. 78; Nissen Die illustrierten Vogelbuecher p. 93.This work on the birds of America is the supplement given by the Italian zoologist and politician Charles Lucien Bonaparte 1803-1857 to Alexander Wilson's monumental American ornithology published in 9 volumes at the beginning of the century.In the first volume Bonaparte describes 16 species of land birds in the second he describes 74 of them 60 of which are aquatic species. The last volume is devoted to the description of terrestrial and aquatic species based mainly on the observations made by the painter and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale 1799-1885 in Florida.Each species was reproduced in color on 21 copper engraved plates by Alexander Lawson after A. Rider.The 4th volume is not included and was not published until 1833.Rubbings and extensive epiderminations on the bindings. Heavy foxing especially in volumes 2 and 3 but not reaching the plates.Provenance: Charles Campbell with this manuscript annotation on the free endpapers : "Edward to Charles Campbell. Merton Abbey. Surrey. England. " - Label with embossed Russian inscription and handwritten inventory number. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey: London: John Miller, 1825-1828. unknown
1146976666.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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180832275Philadelphia: The Wilson volumes published by Bradford and Inskeep. Printed by Robert Carr; R. & W. Carr; VII-IX by Samuel F. Bradford printed by Thomas H. Palmer; the Bonaparte volumes published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Vol.I Carey Lea Carey Vols. II and III and Carey & Lea Vol. IV all Printed by William Brown 1808-1812; 1824-1825; 1825-1833. 13 volumes. First Edition of this rare textual and illustrated work that is considered to be the First Outstanding American Ornithology and the First Great American Colour- Plate Book. Volumes I-VI are first issue Volumes VII VIII and IX reissued with the alterations and corrections by Ord made after further ornithological information had been gleaned and First Edition of the Bonaparte volumes with the first volume in rare first state. The nine Wilson volumes beautifully illustrated with 76 superb hand-coloured engraved folio plates by Alexander Lawson J.G. Warnicke G. Murray and Benjamin Tanner from original drawings by Wilson depicting a vast array of American birds. The Bonaparte volumes are illustrated with 27 additional richly hand-coloured folio plates from drawings by Titian Ramsay Peale A. Rider and plate 10 by Audubon and A. Rider Folio 36 x 27 cm. and Folio 38 x 29 & 39 x 32 cm. The Wilson volumes in contemporary mottled calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines gilt decorated within compartments separated by fine gilt tooling two compartments lettered and numbered in gilt some volumes restored at the backs to style and in effort to match the original spine panels though the tooling is slightly different considering the unavailability of the original tools. The four Bonaparte volumes in fine period red morocco over marbled paper covered boards. The spines fully decorated in gilt. vi 158; xii 167; xvi 120; xii 100; xii 122; xx 100; xii 138; xi 162; ccxxiii i 298 4 General Index pp. Complete viii 105; x 95; iv 60; iv 142 pp. Quite a handsome set in pleasing condition the usual spotting in places usually from offsetting from the plates a few expert repairs to old closed tears in the text the plates all quite well preserved with much less spotting or browning than is usually found. One volume with a bit of evidence of old damp at the edges of the prelims. Vol. VI with a bit more spotting or foxing than the others as is usual due to the paper this confined to some of the textual pages An excellent set. The Bonaparte volumes in very handsome bindings as well some of the usual offsetting and browning throughout the volumes as is typical with the paper used. Generally in all volumes the plates are quite clean and the spotting is confined to the text and tissues. The paper used for the text in these sets was prone to foxing and offsetting spotting and splotching but fortunately the paper used for the plates was of a better quality and so as in the copies being offered here the plates are generally quite clean with some minor spotting on occasion and then usually confined to the outer margins. The bindings on the Bonaparte volumes are in original state and offer a very handsome and especially appealing presence. FIRST EDITION OF TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY AND COLOUR-PLATE PRINTING INCLUDING THE FIRST GREAT WORK ON AMERICAN BIRDS. “The story of Alexander Wilson's spasmodic rise from Scottish peddler and failed poet to the father of Amrican ornithology is a cloyingly American story. Numerous "types" those we recognize from the writings of Benjamin Franklin through the literature of James Fenimore Cooper to the Jacksonian businessman emerge in his journey. It is a journey that takes him from the small town of Paisley in West Scotland to the shores of Delaware where he lands a penniless immigrant over vast tracks of the eastern United States and finally to Philadelphia; here like Franklin he finds renowned associates from Charles Wilson Peale to Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine and the international recognition that he had craved since his first poetic jottings as a youth in Scotland. The tragic irony of this American story is its truncation; indeed it is Alexander Wilson's exhaustingly extreme dedication to his ornithological studies and the illnesses contracted during his Leatherstocking-esque roamins through the forests that kill him at the age of forty-seven just as he attains the station in life he so desires. An immigrant who embraced so fully the "American Dream" of constant industry leading to financial and personal reward Wilson achieved his dream but scarcely lived to enjoy it. Perhaps though Wilson did achieve what he truly desired; in 1805 frustrated by attempts to gain help in publishing his ornithology he swore to continue on his own even if it killed him: "I shall at least leave a small beacon to point out where I perished." Ord p. 61. This declaration transcends Americanness; Wilson seemed to fear that in the vast cauldron of humanity he would be subsumed. His Ornithology then which has earned him title of the father of American ornithology seems the work of a talented and driven man whose desires in life were met too well by the American attitudes and mores of the early nineteenth century.†The book is of considerable importance. Vols. VII-IX revised by George Ord were reissued in 1824-1825<br> The Bonaparte volumes were designed as a supplement to Wilson's American Ornithology. Originally intended to be issued inn 3 vols. 1825-1828 it is now considered imperfect without the final 4th volume 1833. Born in 1803 Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist and a nephew of Napoleon. He emigrated to the United States from France and Italy in 1822 but before leaving Europe he had already discovered a warbler new to science the moustached warbler and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel. On arrival in the United States he presented a paper on this new bird which was later named after Alexander Wilson.<br> On his arrival in America Bonaparte set about studying the ornithology of the United States and updating Wilson's Ornithology. The revised edition was published between 1825 and 1833. His other publications included "Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology" in the Journal of the Philadelphia Academy and "Synopsis of the Birds of the United States" in the Annals of the Lyceum of New York. In 1824 Bonaparte attempted to get the then unknown John James Audubon accepted by the Academy of Natural Sciences but this was opposed by the ornithologist George Ord who disliked Audubon's dramatic bird poses and considered him to be "a back-country upstart who romanticized his subject matter" according to the Audubon Galleries.<br> At the end of 1826 Bonaparte and his family returned to Europe. He visited Germany where he met Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar and England where he met John Edward Gray at the British Museum and renewed his acquaintance with Audubon. In 1828 the family settled in Rome. In Italy he was the originator of several scientific congresses and lectured and wrote extensively on American and European ornithology and other branches of natural history. Between 1832 and 1841 Bonaparte published his work on the animals of Italy Iconografia della Fauna Italica. He had also published Specchio Comparativo delle Ornithologie di Roma e di Filadelfia Pisa 1827 presenting a comparison between birds of the latitude of Philadelphia and Italian species. He created the genus Zenaida for the mourning dove and its relatives. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1845.<br> In 1840 he became Prince of Canino and Musignano after his father's death and became involved in politics particularly the anti-Austrian party that he joined in 1848. He did not however lose interest in his favourite studies for he organized and presided over several scientific congresses in Italy. He visited Sir William Jardine in southern Scotland and began work on preparing a methodical classification of all the birds in the world visiting museums across Europe to study the collections. In 1854 he became director of the Jardin des Plantes. In 1855 he was made a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He published the first volume of his Conspectus Generum Avium before his death the second volume being edited by Hermann Schlegel.<br> Bonaparte was extremely prolific and is responsible for coining Latin names for a large number of bird species. As of August 2019 in the online list of birds maintained by Frank Gill and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee IOC Bonaparte is credited as the authority for 165 genera 203 species and 262 subspecies. wiki<br><br>Fine Bird Books p.114; Sabin 104598; Nissen IVB 992; Wood p.630; BM Natural History p. 2333 The Wilson volumes published by Bradford and Inskeep. Printed by Robert Carr; R. & W. Carr; VII-IX by Samuel F. Bradford, printe hardcover
1878mon0000051867PORTER AND COATES 1878-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback volume 2 only with some damage minor tears or rips to spine and creasing and discolouring to pages due to age. Still very useable. PORTER AND COATES hardcover
1832GT1106London: Whittaker Treacher & Arnot; Stirling & Kenney Edin. 1832. Hardback. Fine. 8vo. 3 volumes octavo set with portrait frontis of the auther Alexander Wilson. Pub. original grey boards with new paper labels to the new grey matching spines. CLEAN TEXT BLOCK AND CLEAN UNCOLOURED ORIGINAL PLATESWith a continuation by Charles Lucian Bonaparte and notes etc. by Sir William Jardine Bart. 408pp;390pp;523pp with 27; 59;76 un-coloured plates and a continuation by Charles Lucian Nonaparte 18 plates. The original plates of both authors were re-engraved by Lizars on a smaller scale and uncoloured in this three volume set. <br/> <br/> Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot; Stirling & Kenney [Edin]. hardcover
