Search Results: american ornithology or the natural history by wilson alexander bonaparte

Nabu Press, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Edinburgh: Constable, 1831. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. Volume I only. A Poor but complete copy (1989 gift inscriprion) in three-quarter brown leather over marbles paper-covered boards. Lacks the spine covering. The front cover is detached but present, and the rear cover is nearly detached. The text block binding is sound, the text is clean, and the frontispiece is present. A reading/binding copy of this small-format 1831 edition. (No plates in this volume, as issued.)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Nabu Press, 2010-03-09. Paperback. Good.

Philadelphia. Porter & Coates, 1871. Hardcover. sm4to, 25.5cm, in 3 volumes, cxxxii,214 & 390 & viii,xvi,9-426pp., original green cloth, leather spine labels, gilt titles, the upper cover of volume three is heavily damp stained and slight dished, affecting the first few pages (3/4), the set would otherwise be fine (sgc). - Contains a biography of Alexander Wilson, and then detailed information of each species.

Edinburgh Constable, 1831-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1836 Four volumes1-4 in acceptable condition from constable pocket editions on dark green cloth - vol I has splits down side spine seams & Vol II is missing part of spine cover whilst vol III & IV are intact but all slightly loose bindings

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Popular Edition. Green boards. Previous owner's ink stamp on second page. Light wear to boards. No date present. Text and illustrations very good, side tear on page 39 of volume I, pressed plant removed along spine of page 209, volume II. Expedited or International shipping may cost more, heavy book.

New York: Collins & Co.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 1828-1829. Three text volumes ONLY and LACKING the PLATE VOLUME. Volume I is in modern library type of binding (though with no library markings). Volumes II and III remain in contemporary bindings, though spines are darkened, chipped, and brittle and appear to have been exposed to smoke and/or heat. There is no smoky odor however. All volumes show moderate to heaving foxing, though all text remains clear and legible. Covers of II and III are loosened and/or detached but present.

PHILADELPHIA, PORTER AND COATES, 1878. THE POPULAR EDITION, THREE VOLUMES IN ONE. THICK SMALL QUARTO. pp. 214, 390, 426. CONTAINS A LONG ESSAY ON THE LIFE OF WILSON. REBOUND USING THE ORIGINAL RED BEVELLED BOARDS AND SPINE, NEW ENDPAPERS, REPAIRED TITLE PAGE. ILLUSTRATED WITH 103 PLATES ENGRAVED FROM DRAWINGS FROM NATURE, FOUR PER PAGE. SOME SLIGHT WEAR TO THE BOARDS AND FOXING TO THE EDGES OF THE PLATE ONLY. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. NO DATE BUT CIRCA 1878. VERY SCARCE IN THE UK.

Edinburgh: Constable and Co., 1831. 3/4 leather. very good. 4 Volumes. 24mo. (6" x 4"). Frontispieces in each volume, frontispiece for volume 1 is bound in before the introduction. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over green cloth. Red leather title labels. Four raised bands. Marble endpapers and edges. Some occasional foxing. Corners slightly bumped. Bookplates of former owner in front pastedowns of each volume. Name of another prior owner in each volume. A handsome set. This is the first European edition of Wilson's American Birds. Originally published in America in 9 vols in quarto. The first three volumes are arranged to be accessible to the general reader and the ornithologist. Volume 1 is prefixed by a biographical memoir by Mr. Hetherington. The fourth volume contains the American Ornithology of Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte. Besides the frontispieces, these works do not reproduce any of the plates from the original.

PORTER AND COATES, 1878-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback (volume 2 only), with some damage, minor tears or rips to spine, and creasing and discolouring to pages due to age. Still very useable.

London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin [Chatto & Windus], 1877. First Edition thus [from 1808]. Half-Morocco. Fine. A superb 3-volume British edition of this classic American bird book, the "first major scientific work published in the United States" (Burtt and Davis, p. 333), here in its final state (with notes and Life of Wilson by Sir William Jardine) and with the largest number of plates. Demy 8vo (211 x 140mm): cv,[1],408,[8,Cassell catalogue]; vii,[1],495,[1]; vii,[1],540pp, with tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson in shooting attire and 103 chromolithographed plates, featuring Lizar's attractive re-engravings of Wilson's originals. Publisher's dark green morocco-backed red cloth, spines richly gilt with hawk vignette, top edge gilt, black coated end papers. Pages and plates virtually pristine (light foxing to opening leaves of each volume; label blacked out on fly leaves). Nissen 996 (Chatto & Windus imprint). Anker 533. Sitwell, p. 155-57. Reese 3 ("the first… Read More

London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot. , 1832.. Binding: Calf boards backed in morocco. Uppers with blind framing and Trinity College (Cambridge) gilt stamps. Spines with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in compartments 2, 3, and 5, remaining decorated in gilt with 3 different bird motifs stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. , Notes: Regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon, Alexander Wilson (1766 –1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. George Ord dubbed him the “Father of American Ornithology”, Size: 8vo. (220 x 145 mm). , Illustration: Very good example of this set, complete in 3 volumes. Complete with 98 brightly handcoloured plates, including frontispiece of Wilson in vol I, lovely handcoloured bird frontispieces in vols II and III. Illustrations are dynamic and expressive, depicting birds hunting or with kill (including other birds), with young, in flight, etc. Vol I front hinge split… Read More

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1828. FIRST EDITIONS. I. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards, gilt spine; some wear to extremities, offsetting from plates. Ex-libris David Bixler and Lee Lawrence Stopple, with their bookplates. II. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards, gilt spine; some wear to extremities, offsetting from plates. Ex-libris David Bixler and Lee Lawrence Stopple, with their bookplates. I. First edition of "the first truly great American ornithology . . . absolutely basic as a collector's item" (Bennett). Wilson's Ornithology was an artistic, scientific, and commercial undertaking of magisterial proportions. His plates depict 320 figures of 262 species, including 39 that were entirely new and 23 that were for the first time described sufficiently to distinguish them from European species with which they had been confused. II. First edition with the rare first issue of Volume 1. The work was subsequently purchased by Carey, Lea, and… Read More

New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co., 1828-1829. 3 quarto text volumes plus a large folio atlas First of the Edition, the second overall with text and plates greatly improved from the first edition published between 1808 and 1814. A copy with pleasing provenance, passed down through the Reath family of Philadelphia, PA, first owned by Thomas Reath who emigrated from Ireland to the United States (1792-1877), then by his son Benjamin B. Reath (1822-1891), then by his son Thomas (1859-1930), then by his son Thomas Jr. (1890-1975) and finally by his son and grandchild. A copy that has remained in private hands since its publication. Beautifully illustrated with seventy-six handcoloured engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by A. Lawson (52), J.G. Warnicke (21), G. Murray (2), and B. Tanner (1), all after Wilson, the most preferred state of the plates. Quarto and Folio, handsomely bound to style in three-quarter polished brown crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the… Read More