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1869WRCAM54227Chicago 1869. 2133-337viiiiv pp. plus portrait frontispiece and fourteen plates some colored. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped spine partially perished. Faint institutional stamp on front wrapper. Very good with nice clean plates. In a half morocco box. One of the rarest American color plate books and among the earliest ornithological representations from Alaska. Only fifty copies were thought to be printed and it is estimated that half of that number perished in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The pertinent section is contained on pages 267- 337 comprising Dall and Bannister's LIST OF THE BIRDS OF ALASKA WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES including S.F. Baird's descriptions of these new Alaskan species entitled ON ADDITIONS TO THE BIRD-FAUNA OF NORTH AMERICA MADE BY THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS OF THE RUSSO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION on pages 311-325. <br> <br> Most important are the eight color lithographs of Alaskan birds bound at the rear of the volume. The birds were drawn by noted ornithological artist Edwin Sheppard and engraved by J.T. Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia the firm which had previously printed the octavo editions of John James Audubon's THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. The plates identify numerous species new to American ornithology the names of which can be taken from Baird's descriptions as follows: <br> <br> 1 Plate XXVII: Kennicott's Owl. <br> <br> 2 Plate XXVIII: Gray-eared Finch Hepburn's Finch and Spermophila badiiventris. <br> <br> 3 Plate XXIX: Cassin's Bullfinch and Bischoff's Song Sparrow. <br> <br> 4 Plate XXX: Yellow Wagtail Kennicott's Warbler and Alaska Wren. <br> <br> 5 Plate XXXI: Sterna aleutica and Cassin's Auk. <br> <br> 6 Plate XXXII: Limosa uropygialis. <br> <br> 7 Plate XXXIII: Crested Cormorant. <br> <br> 8 Plate XXXIV: Slender-billed Petrel and Rodgers' Fulmar Petrel. <br> <br> By 1923 this work was already "one of the rarest American bird books" according to an Anderson Galleries catalogue from that year which also described the plates as "very fine and most of them contributed by the munificence of individual citizens of Chicago of that time bear the names of the donors." <br> <br> Also contains Robert Kennicott's journal on pages 133-226. "Kennicott.made a trip to the Red River country in 1857 and two years later went to British and Arctic America for the Smithsonian Institution as far as Fort Yukon. In 1865 he surveyed a route for a telegraph line for Western Union in Alaska and on the Yukon River. He died at Fort Nulato Alaska in 1866" - Graff. <br> <br> A work of supreme interest for the Alaskan collector. NISSEN 218. SITWELL 89. HOWES C375 "b." CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 1518. GRAFF 681. unknown books
189024892Leipzig Germany: Bibliographisches Intitut 1890. A single original colored plate of these parrots; measures 6 1/2" x 10" overall size; identified as Kaka Parrots below the image. No date circa 1890. Light wear; old mounting residue at top margin and on back in very good condition. . Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Bibliographisches Intitut paperback books
189024894European Origin: No Publisher Noted 1890. A single original colored plate of these vultures; each variety identified below the image. No date circa 1890. Measures 6 1/2" x 10" overall size. Light wear; a little old mounting residue at top margin and on back in very good condition. . Art. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
188024899No Place Listed: No Publisher Noted 1880. A single original colored plate of vultures in their habitat. Plate No. CXI. No date or publisher circa 1880. Measures 11" x 14 1/2" overall size. Old mounting tape residue at margin edges on back little bit of faint spotting in margins in very good condition. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
184524963Stuttgart Germany: Hoffman 1845. Vogel XIII Taf. 86 Walgvogel Didus Kiwi Apteryx Trappe Otis Casuar Casuarius Strauss Strulthio Okens' Allgemeine Naturgeschichte VII. Zoologie Lith. V. Rees. A single original colored plate of these birds; measures approx. 11" x 13 1/2" overall size; nicely colored. Light wear old matte line old mounting residue at back; in very good condition. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Hoffman paperback books
187824961New York N.Y.: Jacob H. Studer & Co. 1878. Plate LXXV; A single original colored plate of these birds; measures approx. 11 1/2" x 14" overall size; nicely chromo-lithographically colored. Light wear; old mounting residue at top on the back; colors bright clean and in very good condition. . Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Jacob H. Studer & Co. paperback books
19741327766Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; First edition; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine blue with white print; DJ has one-inch closed tear to front top edge slight tears at spine ends and flap corners light smudging to rear; Boards quarter bound with grey cloth to spine and blue cloth to boards gold print slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Inscribed in ink by the photographer on the half-title page; 160 pages frontispiece illustrated color. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1327766. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1960320061960. ORNITHOLOGY. HUMMINGBIRDS. By Crawford H. Greenewalt. Garden City NY: Doubleday for the American Museum of Natural History 1960. Large 4to with 70 tipped-in high-speed color photographs taken by the author; also drawings in text; grey cloth. A fine copy in slightly worn dust jacket. Wonderful photographs. unknown books
1940720th century. Watercolour on rice paper inscribed "Yama-Dori" with Japanese characters. Framed designed by William Haines. Ink and colors on paper inscribed 'Yama-Dori' male mountain bird mounted in a plexiglas and white painted wooden frame designed by William Haines Framed size: 15 1/4 inches high 53 1/2 inches wide. unknown books
196223026Kobenhavn: Branner Og Korch 1962. 'Danmarks Fugle' with 692 pages consecutively paginated bound in the original 16 parts each in its own illustrated wrapper with cumulative index at back of last volume; color plates black and white drawings distribution maps more; Danish text throughout; approx. 8" x 11 1/2" size bound in blue paper illustrated wraps side sewn; with 'Danske Fuglestemmer' 15 45 rpm records two-sided with recordings of various bird-songs of Denmark; each in its own illustrated stiff-paper sleeve with text on back describing each song and keyed to the text via a numbering system complete; the records all in very good visible condition some sleeves unopened records have not been played by us; some edge tips wear and rubbing to covers of texts and records; overall very clean and all in very good condition; previous owner had kept these in a slipcase titled accordingly and also included. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Branner Og Korch Paperback books
197824369Denmark: Dansk Ornithologisk Forening 1978. Group includes: Breeding Birds at an Industrial Area by Bent Moller Sorensen 5 pages printed one side only and with 8 tipped-on color real-photo photographs of the then- Kuwait Petroleum refinery at Stigsnaes Denmark Kuwait eventually sold the refinery to the Danish energy Co. DONG; it is currently a storage facility only and no longer a refinery text in English; with Observationer Fra Stigsnaes 50 pages illustrated with maps & charts bird activities observations; and the group with Stigsnaes 1979 - 80; 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 19686 representing Stigsnaes reports 2 through 8; and Stigsnaes flora pa Stigsnaes report Nr. 9. Laid-in is a hand-lettered note from Bent Sorensen to Dr. Berthel Bruun 1937 - 2011 Danish-American naturalist international conservationist and neurologist author of several birding guides. Danish text throughout excepting the first item here. Also laid-in are a pamphlet regarding the Stigsnaes birding station with two paper backing sheets having nine color photographs tipped-on of the site's mobile trailer & informational charts and more of the station. With an appendix of 1982 Ederfuglen by B.M. Sorensen & Jan Woollhead. The 1986 Stigsnaes has laid-in a 10 page stapled copy of Ynglende rovfugle i Sydvestsjaelland 1986 by B.M. Sorensen & Soren K. Pedersen; the reports are all illustrated in black and white with charts line-drawn bird illustrations observation lists & more; the group either stapled or plastic spiral-bound; all approx. 8 1/4" x 11 3/4" size except for the last report on the flora 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" approx.; some light wear and soiling to the covers; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Dansk Ornithologisk Forening Paperback books
198330191New York: Alfred Knopf 1983. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Three thick paperbound octavos. Sold as a set. All are stated first printings. All in near fine condition. 447 398 and 399 pages respectively. With hundreds of color photographs and texts by 61 key experts. Heavy set of books. Additional shipping costs may apply. Alfred Knopf paperback books
190829383Hollywood: The Condor 1908. First edition. Paperback. Good. Staple-bound magazines. Three consecutive issues from 1908 plus a bonus issue from 1903 will be included. All issues contain articles and black and white photographs on birds and birding. All in fair to good condition. The Condor paperback books
195227796London: Hutchinson 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 223 pp. With a foreword by The Marquess of Willingdon and an introduction by H. V. Morton. With numerous drawings and plates by the noted South African artist Michaelis. Book states First Published 1952. A handsome very good copy in lightly used price-intact dustwrapper. A somewhat large and heavy volume. Hutchinson hardcover books
190026699Santa Clara: Cooper Ornithological Club 1900. First edition. Paperback. Good. Tall 8vo. 28 pp including covers. The July - August 1900 issue of this magazine devoted to the study and science of birds. Includes an article entitled "On the Scientific Photography of Birds' Eggs" by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. A fair to good copy in fragile stapled wrappers. The word "Exchange" is stamped lightly at top of front panel. Cooper Ornithological Club paperback books
198423097Boston Toronto: Little Brown and Company 1984. 160 pages; with a useful index; illustrations in color throughout; predatory birds waterfowl sea & shore birds miscellaneous birds; ".careful measured drawings in color.exactly life size.upper surfaces including that of the fully-opened wing are shown; the under surface with wings in the same position; a side view with the wings closed and any other details such as a front view of the head accurate studies of legs and feet and drawings of single feathers." from the jacket information; "First American Edition" stated on copyright page; a large volume approx. 10 1/4" x 13 1/2" size; illustrated dustjacket over dark brown cloth-covered boards gilt spine titles; light edge wear to jacket; very clean and in very good condition. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Little, Brown and Company Hardcover books
191731157Chicago: The Lakeside Press 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio-sized hardbound volume. 180 pp. Illustrated by 145 drawings in the text and sixty-one colored paintings prepared for this work by Arthur W. Head. Covers are dust soiled. Internally tight and clean. With a "Compliments of the Author" sticker afixed to the front endpaper. Hand written to one Dr. W. H. Fox. The Lakeside Press hardcover books
192321520New York: American Museum of Natural History 1923. Hardcover. Very good. Three offprints in original wrappers bound together in blue cloth boards with typed label "Proposed New Birds from South America" on the front. Minor soiling to one front wrapper The first article comes from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History May 20 1916 and is titled "Some apparently undescribed Birds from the Collection of the Roosevelt South American Expedition." The other two both from American Museum Novitates Nos. 27 and 58 are "Descriptions of Proposed New Birds from Brazil Paraguary and Argentina" 1921 and "Descriptions of Proposed New Birds from Brazil and Paraguay" 1923. All three have the ink stamp of zoologist Tracy I. Storer on the front cover. Cherrie 1865-1948 was an American naturalist and explorer who at various points in his career worked at the Field Museum the British Museum the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History. He claimed to have gathered over 125000 specimens on 40 expeditions mostly in South America. The three articles gathered here record the characteristics of birds he collected on and immediately following the Roosevelt South American Expedition of 1913-14. The ornithological collections from the expedition included more than 400 species and subspecies some of which were previously unknown to ornithologists. American Museum of Natural History hardcover books
186812303Salem Mass: Essex Institute Press 1868. First Separate Appearance. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed tan paper wrappers. Wear to spine and extremities of wrapper lower cover detached but present. First Separate Appearance. 1 vols. 8vo. This work appeared in the Communications of the Essex Institute in May 1868 titled "Catalogue of the Birds of North America contained in the Museum." Coues stated that "the reprint gives the faunal list precedence over the museum catalouge but this is true only as regards the title-the general text is unaltered" Ayer. According to Coues there were only 50 copies of this reprint.<br/><br/>Elliott Coues 1842-1899 became interested in natural history in particular ornithology when his family moved from New Hampshire to Washington D. C. Coues became aquainted with the Smithsonian Institution and its collections which fed his interests in natural history. As an assistant surgeon in the Army during the Civil War Coues "collected studied and published extensively on birds during his peripatetic military assignments" DSB at various forts in Arizona North Carolina and in the Dakota Territory. Later he served as naturalist for the Northen Boundary Commission 1873-1876 and for the Hayden survey in the ensuing four years. He was professor of anatomy at Columbian College now George Washington University from 1877 to 1886 and was editor of natural history subjects for the "Century Dictionary." He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences among numerous other societies and was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union an early conservation group. Coues published some very well-received innovative tracts on birds with "Key to North American Birds" and "Check-List of North American Birds." "A distinctive feature of the "Check-List" was Coues's corrections in the orthography and pronunciation of original scientific names . . . He was a leader in the trend of his era toward reducing the great number of species names to varieties especially in local forms" DSB. He was considered a "lucid writer with a charming style second only and successor to Spencer F. Baird his mentor in ornithology Coues presented a great deal of information on the behavior and life histories of birds" DSB. Late in life he checked and annotated manuscripts of various American western exploration most notably the journals of Lewis and Clark and of Zebulon Pike. "In his meticulous fashion he retraced the explorers' routes and enlarged considerably upon their natural history observa. Ayer p. 142 Essex Institute Press unknown books
50577Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of a pair of robins with the characteristic early coloring of the upper feathers in blue 10 x 8 3/8 inches plate marks on a larger sheet. Plate 396 in Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux Paris ca. 1775. Anker Bird Books 76: "Hand-coloured plates drawn and engraved by F.N. Martinet." Very good with bright coloring. <br/><br/> unknown books
50578Engraving printed in color and retouched by hand 11 7/8 x 9 inches plate marks on a larger sheet. Plate 67 in Vieillot's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale Paris 1807. Anker Bird Books 515: "The plates Pretre pinxt. are engravings printed in colour Bouquet sculpt. Langlois imp. and retouched by hand." A little foxed mostly in margins but with attractive coloring. <br/><br/> unknown books
50579Engraving of a mockingbird printed in color and retouched by hand 11 7/8 x 9 inches plate marks on a larger sheet. Plate 68 in Vieillot's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale Paris 1807. Anker Bird Books 515: "The plates Pretre pinxt. are engravings printed in colour Bouquet sculpt. Langlois imp. and retouched by hand." With substantial foxing mostly in margins but an attractive image. <br/><br/> unknown books
1913Z1527Boston:: Privately Printed 1913. 1913. First printing. 8vo. 186 addenda 1 pp. Early half dark blue morocco with marbled paper sides gilt-stamped spine title with raised bands t.e.g.; outer front spine hinge badly gnawed still tightly bound. Good. Privately Printed, 1913. hardcover books
