AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States: Illustrated with Plates Engraved and Colored from Original drawings taken from Nature [including,] SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY OF ALEXANDER WILSON. Containing a Sketch of the Author's Life, with a Selection From His Letters; Some Remarks Upon His Writings, and a History of Those Birds Which Were Intended to Compose Part of His Ninth Volume. Illustrated with Plates Engraved from Wilson's Original Drawings by George Ord, F.LS. [with,] AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson [by Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte]
Edité par Philadelphia The Wilson volumes published by Bradford and Inskeep. Printed by Robert Carr; R. & W. Carr; VII-IX by Samuel F. Bradford, printed by Thomas H. Palmer; the Bonaparte volumes published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell (Vol.I), Carey, Lea Carey (Vols. II and III), and Carey & Lea (Vol. IV), all Printed by William Brown 1808-1812; 1824-1825; 1825-1833
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13 volumes. First Edition of this rare textual and illustrated work that is considered to be the First Outstanding American Ornithology and the First Great American Colour- Plate Book. Volumes I-VI are first issue, Volumes VII, VIII and IX reissued with the alterations and corrections by Ord made after further ornithological information had been gleaned and First Edition of the Bonaparte volumes with the first volume in rare first state. The nine Wilson volumes beautifully illustrated with 76 superb hand-coloured engraved folio plates by Alexander Lawson, J.G. Warnicke, G. Murray and Benjamin Tanner from original drawings by Wilson, depicting a vast array of American birds. The Bonaparte volumes are illustrated with 27 additional richly hand-coloured folio plates from drawings by Titian Ramsay Peale, A. Rider and (plate 10) by Audubon and A. Rider Folio, 36 x 27 cm. and Folio 38 x 29 & 39 x 32 cm., The Wilson volumes in contemporary mottled calf over marbled paper covered boards, the spines gilt decorated within compartments separated by fine gilt tooling, two compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, some volumes restored at the backs to style and in effort to match the original spine panels though the tooling is slightly different considering the unavailability of the original tools. The four Bonaparte volumes in fine period red morocco over marbled paper covered boards. The spines fully decorated in gilt. vi, 158; xii, 167; xvi, 120; xii, 100; xii, 122; xx, 100; xii, 138; xi, 162; ccxxiii, [i], 298, [4 General Index] pp. Complete + [viii], 105; [x], 95; [iv], 60; [iv], 142 pp. Quite a handsome set in pleasing condition, the usual spotting in places, usually from offsetting from the plates, a few expert repairs to old closed tears in the text, the plates all quite well preserved with much less spotting or browning than is usually found. One volume with a bit of evidence of old damp at the edges of the prelims. Vol. VI with a bit more spotting or foxing than the others as is usual due to the paper, this confined to some of the textual pages, An excellent set. The Bonaparte volumes in very handsome bindings as well, some of the usual offsetting and browning throughout the volumes as is typical with the paper used. Generally, in all volumes the plates are quite clean and the spotting is confined to the text and tissues. The paper used for the text in these sets was prone to foxing and offsetting, spotting and splotching, but fortunately, the paper used for the plates was of a better quality and so, as in the copies being offered here, the plates are generally quite clean with some minor spotting on occasion and then, usually confined to the outer margins. The bindings on the Bonaparte volumes are in original state and offer a very handsome and especially appealing presence. FIRST EDITION OF TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY AND COLOUR-PLATE PRINTING, INCLUDING THE FIRST GREAT WORK ON AMERICAN BIRDS. "The story of Alexander Wilson's spasmodic rise from Scottish peddler and failed poet to the father of Am[rican 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 roamins through the.…
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- AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States: Illustrated with Plates Engraved and Colored from Original drawings taken from Nature [including,] SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY OF ALEXANDER WILSON. Containing a Sketch of the Author's Life, with a Selection From His Letters; Some Remarks Upon His Writings, and a History of Those Birds Which Were Intended to Compose Part of His Ninth Volume. Illustrated with Plates Engraved from Wilson's Original Drawings by George Ord, F.LS. [with,] AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson [by Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte]
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- Wilson Alexander; Ord, George; Bonaparte, Prince Charles Lucien
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- Philadelphia The Wilson volumes published by Bradford and Inskeep. Printed by Robert Carr; R. & W. Carr; VII-IX by Samuel F. Bradford, printed by Thomas H. Palmer; the Bonaparte volumes published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell (Vol.I), Carey, Lea Carey (Vols. II and III), and Carey & Lea (Vol. IV), all Printed by William Brown 1808-1812; 1824-1825; 1825-1833
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