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Publication Date: 1854
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Off Print. 2 pages; Off-print from The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, July 22, 1851.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 533.
Published by Place and date not stated
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
On 5.5 x 14 cm. strip of paper. Apparently written in response to a request for an autograph. Reads: 'I am much flattered by the demand | C L. Bonaparte' ('demand' being a mistake for 'request').
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin No date, London, Paris, and New York
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Condition: Good +. Odd volume. 540pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 1/4 bonded green leather with red cloth over boards, and a gilt stamped title and bird illustration on the backstrip. Top edge gilt. The boards are a bit soiled, and there is a previous owner's name on the first page of the text. With 34 color plates. The illustration at p. 400 is detached, but present. Alexander was the first ornithologist to describe the birds of North America.
Published by In English. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition.
Seller: Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Leyden, 3 May 1856. Charles Bonaparte (1803-57), son of Lucien Bonaparte, scientist and politician, author of American Ornithology (1825-33) and many other works.
Published by Paris: 6 Germinal An 8 = March 27, 1800
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. Als with with a stamp by Bonaparte and with an ink signature of Lameth denying a request for an exemption to merchants in Strasbourg of the tax on the sale of hemp (chanvre). 24 x 18 cm. Loss in left margin. Expertise by: Cabinet DavalEdgard Daval, 5 rue Seguier03500 Saint Pourçain sur Sioule, France.
Published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, Paris, New York
Seller: Allison Robinson Books, DUXBURY, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Half Leather. Condition: Very Good. Wilson, Peale, and Rider (illustrator). The Illustrative Notes of Wilson by Sir William Jardine. Brown leather spines and corners with gilt embossing and lettering on the spine. Marble to 1/2 boards, end papers and papers edges. All chromolithographs in all volumes are present and all well preserved. The bottoms of each board in each volume has rubbing. Volumes 1 and 3 have moderate rubbing to leather, volume 2 has minimal rubbing. Inside each board is a nice black and white book plate illustrated with a bird and the name James McDonald.
Published by New York & Philadelphia Collins & Co. 1828-1829, 1829
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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 spines with raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments with central ornamental devices gilt, two compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, joins at the covers ruled in gilt, all edges as from the printer, untrimmed. Text: cxcix,[1],230,[1]; vi, [without leaf number vii-viii, as usual], [9] - 456 vi, 396, [4pp. subscribers list at end of third volume]. Atlas: Seventy-six handcolored engraved plates. A handsome set, the bindings in excellent condition, strong and tight and sound and virtually as pristine, the text-blocks all untrimmed at the edges and thus as from the printer's presses, very scarce thus, the paper still very crisp and strong and unpressed, evidence of old damp to the lower blank margins of the leaves rarely touching the text. The atlas folio binding as with the text volumes, in essentially pristine condition, strong and tight, 8 or 9 leaves with some evidence of old damp at the margins, generally primarily noticed on the versos of the leaves rather than on the rectos and generally, not obtrusive. A beautiful and honest set. THE CELEBRATED PRINTING OF THE GREATEST WORK BY THE FATHER OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Wilson is regarded as the greatest American ornithologist prior to Audubon. "The story of Alexander Wilson's spasmodic rise from Scottish peddler and failed poet to the father of American ornithology is a cloyingly American story. Numerous "types", those we recognize from the writings of Benjamin Franklin through the literature of James Fenimore Cooper to the Jacksonian businessman emerge in his journey. It is a journey that takes him from the small town of Paisley in West Scotland to the shores of Delaware where he lands, a penniless immigrant, over vast tracks of the eastern United States, and finally to Philadelphia; here, like Franklin, he finds renowned associates from Charles Wilson Peale to Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine and the international recognition that he had craved since his first poetic jottings as a youth in Scotland. The tragic irony of this American story is its truncation; indeed, it is Alexander Wilson's exhaustingly extreme dedication to his ornithological studies, and the illnesses contracted during his Leatherstocking-esque roamings through the forests that kill him at the age of forty-seven, just as he attains the station in life he so desires. An immigrant who embraced so fully the "American Dream" of constant industry leading to financial and personal reward, Wilson achieved his dream, but scarcely lived to enjoy it. Perhaps though, Wilson did achieve what he truly desired; in 1805, frustrated by attempts to gain help in publishing his ornithology, he swore to continue on his own, even if it killed him: "I shall at least leave a small beacon to point out where I perished." (Ord, p. 61). This declaration transcends Americanness; Wilson seemed to fear that in the vast cauldron of humanity, he would be subsumed. His Ornithology, then, which has earned him title of the father of American ornithology, seems the work of a talented and driven man whose desires in life were met too well by the American attitudes and mores of the early nineteenth century." Wilson had traveled widely, collecting and painting. He also secured subscribers to fund his work, the nine-volume American Ornithology (1808 1814). Of the 268 species of birds illustrated in its pages, 26 had not previously been described. His illustrations of birds in poses were an inspiration for James Audubon and other illustrators and naturalists. George Ord was an important American zoologist who specialized in North American ornithology and mammology. Based in part on specimens collected by Lewis and Clark in the North American interior, Ord's article "Zoology of North America" (1815), which was published in the second American edition of William Guthrie's Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar (Johnson and Warner), has been recognized as the "first systematic zoology of America by an American". Ord met Alexander Wilson in the summer of 1811, and accompanied him on two collecting expeditions (each four weeks duration) to Cape May, New Jersey, during the spring migration seasons of May 1812 and May 1813. During the 1812 trip, Ord collected a bird that neither he nor Wilson could identify. Wilson illustrated Ord's specimen and named it "Cape May Warbler / Sylvia maritima" in volume 6 of American Ornithology (1812), writing: "This new and beautiful little species was discovered in a maple swamp, in Cape May county, not far from the coast, by Mr. George Ord of this city, who accompanied me on a shooting excursion to that quarter in the month of May last. Through the zeal and activity of this gentleman I succeeded in procuring many rare and elegant birds among the sea islands and extensive salt marshes that border that part of the Atlantic; and much interesting information relative to their nests, eggs, and particular habits. I have also at various times been favored with specimens of other birds from the same friend, for all which I return my gratefu.