Lot 129
  • 129

Wilson, Alexander and Charles Lucian Bonaparte.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States. London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot and Edinburgh: Stirling & Kenney, 1832
3 volumes, 8vo (212 x 131mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece, 97 hand-coloured engraved plates by W.H. Lizars after Wilson, nineteenth-century green morocco gilt, occasional light foxing

Provenance

Sir Edward Sullivan (1822-1885, Lord Chancellor of Ireland); S.V. Dashwood; 5th Earl of Rosebery, armorial bookplates, purchased from James Bain, 1890, £7 7s

Literature

Anker 534; Nissen IVB 996; Sabin 104598; Wood, p. 630

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

Before Audubon's celebrated Birds of America, Wilson's American Ornithology, which first appeared in 1808, was the standard work on the subject.