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1858DEMO013873IWashington 1858. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. 4to 1005 pages worn orig. sheep lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Rep. #799 <br/><br/>This is the BIRDS. By Spencer F. Baird with John Cassin and Geo. N. Lawrence. Sitwell p. 74. This is a text-only volume. House Exec. Doc. no. 91 Pt. 9. Howes P3; Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 266b; Rittenhouse 442. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan CALIFORNIA p.512." hardcover
188074213London: Willughby Society 1880-1884. Newton A. DESFONTAINES'S MEMOIRE SUR QUELQUES NOUVELLES ESPE D'OISEAUX DES COTES DE BARBARIE iv 10 pages of text 7 plates 1880.Salvin O. LEACH'S SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF THE SPECIMENS OF THE INDIGINEOUS MAMMALIA AND BIRDS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 42 pages light foxing throughout 1882.Godman F. Du Cane LICHTENSTEIN'S CATALOGUS RERUM NATURALIUM RARISSIMARUM 60 pages foxing throughout 1882.Newton A. SCOPOLI'S ORNITHOLOGICAL PAPERS FROM HIS DELICIAE FLORAE ET FAUNAE INSUBRICAE 20 pages spine split and holding at the ties 1882.Salvin O. BARTON'S FRAGMENTS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA 23 pages foxing on preliminary pages front board detached 1883.Saunders H. VIEILOT'S ANALYSE D'UNE NOUVELLE ORNITHOLOGIE ELEMENTAIRE 70 pages 1883.All unopened in the original red stiff wrappers. Some rubbing but very good.Francis Willughby sometimes spelt Willoughby 1635 –1672 was an English ornithologist and ichthyologist and an early student of linguistics and games. He was born and raised at Middleton Hall Warwickshire the only son of an affluent country family. He was a student at Trinity College Cambridge where he was tutored by the mathematician and naturalist John Ray who became a lifetime friend and colleague and lived with Willughby after 1662 when he lost his livelihood through his refusal to sign the Act of Uniformity. Willughby was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1661 then aged 27. He died of pleurisy in July 1672 aged 36. Willughby Society unknown
1855DEMO014219IWashington: Beverly Tucker 1855. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. fair. 34 chromos 22 monochromes. 4to 13485102114 pages original sheep defects. Ex libris House of Repr. Vol. #796. Lacks the two maps and two sheet profiles. <br/><br/>This volume contains seven Reports by Abbott Conrad Newberry Girard & Baird along the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River. House Exec. Doc. no. 91. Howes P3; Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 264a-1; Rittenhouse 442. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan CALIFORNIA p.512." 34 chromolithographs 22 monochromes. Beverly Tucker hardcover
189541992Wien: K.K. Öster. Handels-Museum 1895. Folio. Title leaf and 12 mounted plates held loose in the original pictorial board folder. Contemporary inscription to the inside of the upper board title leaf chipped with some loss to the outer edge boards with some light wear and soiling. Wien: K.K. Öster. Handels-Museum unknown
1840DEMO015930IBoston: Otis Broaders And Company 1840. New 'Brewer' edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 woodcuts and 23/24 plates. 8vo viii 746 pages modern brown morocco gilt contrasting red morocco label. <br/><br/>Also includes the Notes by Sir William Jardine. Illustrated with 4 woodcuts and 23 of 24 plates. Alexander Wilson emigrated from Scotland and began a scientific study of birds. His AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY 1808-1814 identified 39 new species earning him the appellation as the "Father of American Ornithology". 4 woodcuts and 23/24 plates Otis, Broaders And Company hardcover
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
180286211London: For J. White 1802 1813. First Edition. Three volumes bound in two. Octavo 20.5cm. Nineteenth century half-calf over marbled boards. Volume I: xlii; text unpaginated; hand-colored frontispiece Cirl Bunting. Volume II: unpaginated. Volume III Supplement: vi; text unpaginated; 24 inserted leaves of engraved plates uncolored; errata. Bound without half-titles; two plates in Supplement bound out of order; occasional faint foxing and pencil marginalia to all volumes. A clean attractive set collated complete contents fresh and bright. An early 19th c. owner has tipped in a manuscript leaf at close of v.III hand-titled: "In Montagu - added since Pennant i.e. Thos. Pennant "British Zoology" 1766 but not found by Montagu himself;" verso headed "Immature birds or varieties held as species by Montagu." <br /> <br /> A key work of ornithological literature; Montagu often cited as the "father of British ornithology" is credited with describing several new species of British birds as well as proving that others once held as species were in fact examples of the same species in seasonal or immature plumage. For J. White unknown
1893CRR2302Farnborough Kent: Published by the Author 1893. FIRST EDITION. 385 x 298 mm. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8". xvi lacking final two leaves of introduction 111 1 pp. <br/> Recent dark green quarter morocco over green cloth boards raised bands spine panels with gilt lettering. Housed in a matching green morocco-backed clamshell box lined with velvet by J & S Brockman. CONTAINING 27 HAND-COLORED PLATES each enhanced with gum Arabic by J. G. Kuelemans. Fine Bird Books p. 92; Ayer/Zimmer p.178; Wood p. 324. ◆A couple of plates with very minor foxing or an isolated spot but IN VERY FINE CONDITION inside and out the leaves quite smooth and clean and with vast margins.<br/> <br/> This is an important and beautifully illustrated work on the Coraciidae a spritely family of birds known for their vibrant plumage and acrobatic aerial displays. Predominantly found in Africa and parts of the near East "rollers" as these birds are commonly known are much admired for their extraordinary coloring ranging from bright blues violets and bright pinks to soft peach and burnt orange. The artist of the present work Dutch illustrator John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912 was a much sought-after draughtsman in the world of ornithology. Here he depicts each bird with his usual precision and fine detail and captures a rainbow of shades with richly saturated hues and subtle gradations. Zimmer calls the work a "Thoroughly detailed study of the group with excellent hand-colored plates." The son of a timber merchant Henry Eeles Dresser 1838-1915 travelled widely for his father's business which also afforded him the opportunity to study birds in far-flung regions such as Finland the Baltics and New Brunswick where the company operated a lumber mill. He even travelled to Texas during the Civil War bringing back with him more than 400 species of bird skins from the region. Dresser became one of the leading ornithologists of his day was elected to the British Ornithologists' Union the Linnean Society and the Zoological Society and amassed a formidable collection of skins and eggs. In addition to the present work he wrote another monograph on a related species of birds the monumental multi-volume "History of Birds in Europe" as well as numerous scholarly articles. We are able to price our handsomely presented and quite fine copy advantageously because of the two missing leaves from the introduction. Published by the Author unknown
