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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
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
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
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
