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Wilson, Alexander, and Charles Lucian Bonaparte.
Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description
- American Ornithology; Or, the natural history of the birds of the United States… the illustrative notes, and life of Wilson, by Sir William Jardine. London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnott and Edinburgh: Stirling and Kenney, 1832
3 volumes, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), half-titles in volumes 1 and 2 (lacking in vol.3), engraved portrait of Wilson, 97 hand-coloured engraved plates by W.H. Lizars after Wilson and others, including one plate with a figure by J.J. Audubon, 2 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, sectional title to Bonaparte’s text, contemporary green half morocco, occasional spotting and browning, portrait offset to following page, inkblot affecting first few pages of vol.2, a few plate numbers and captions cropped
Literature
Anker 534; Fine Bird Books, p.114, Nissen IVB 996; Sabin 104598; Wood, p.630; Zimmer, p.683
Catalogue Note
an early joint edition of wilson and bonaparte, edited by William Jardine and combining the whole of Wilson’s ornithology with the first three volumes of Bonaparte’s, the final volume of which did not appear until the year after this edition. This copy is from the more attractive issue, with the perches and backgrounds coloured.