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 …

by Alexander Wilson

$22,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 76 engravings, with excellent handcoloring. 9 vols. Folio. Contemporary marbled boards, expertly backed to original style in red calf with plain gilt rules, title and volumes numbers stamped in gilt. Some light wear to text leaves. Moderate to heavy foxing and offsetting from plates, as usual with this work, but far better than typical. Meisel III, p.369; DAB XX, p.317; Bennett, p.114; Sabin 104597; Reese, Stamped with National Character 3.

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