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Ornithological Biography, or an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America; accompanied by descriptions of the objects represented in the work entitled The Birds of America, and interspersed with delineations of American scenery and manners.

Edinburgh & London: Printed by Neill & Co. (Edinburgh) for Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh) and R. Havell Jun., and Longman, Rees, Brown and Green (London), and various others, 1831-1834-1835-1838-"1849" [i.e.1839]. 5 volumes, large 8vo (10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches). Half-titles. Numerous woodcut text illustrations. Vols. 2-5 uncut. Modern half red morocco and red cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition of the separately-issued text for the elephant folio Birds of America.

(#30510) $ 8,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Republican Cliff Swallow.

Edinburgh: 1831. Oil on millboard, R. Davy label on verso. Approximately 18 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. Framed.

An important original oil painting from the Audubon/Kidd collaboration.

(#29519) $ 55,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD

A History of North American Birds ... Land Birds ... [With:] Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Vol. XII. The Water Birds of North America.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1875-1884. 2 works in 5 volumes (Land Birds, 3 vols; Water Birds, 2 vols), 4to (10 1/2 x 8 inches). [Land Birds:] 64 hand-coloured lithographs and numerous illustrations. Extra-illustrated with 36 hand- coloured lithographs after Ridgway. [Water Birds:] 493 illustrations (including 332 finely hand-coloured). Uncut. Publisher's uniform green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

Rare deluxe, coloured and extra-illustrated editions of Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's classics of American ornithology.

(#29922) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

WILLIAM CHARLES BEEBE

A Monograph of the Pheasants.

London: published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby and Co., 1918-1927. 4 volumes, folio (15 15/16 x 11 3/4 inches). Titles in red and black, 90 coloured lithograph or collotype plates, after A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge, H. Gronvold, L.A. Fuertes, Chas. R. Knight, H. Jones, and E. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates (many with 2 images) from photographs by Beebe and others, 20 distribution maps printed in red and black by Stanford's, the chromolithographs and photogravures with captioned tissue-guards. Publisher's maroon cloth, upper covers and spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

First edition of perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the last century, "notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace of its prose" (Ellis).

(#28878) $ 4,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHARLES LUCIAN BONAPARTE

American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of Birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson.

Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell [vol I]; Carey, Lea & Carey [vols II & III]; Carey & Lea [vol IV], 1825-1828-1828- 1833. 4 volumes, folio. 27 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alexander Lawson. Extra-illustrated with 5 uncoloured engraved plates in vol. IV. 19th-century black half morocco over green cloth-covered boards, the compartments bordered in gilt with double fillets, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Provenance: Juliette Clary (inscribed by Bonaparte on the vol. I title, "Offert par l'auteur a sa Cousine Juliette").

A very fine set of the first edition, first issue of this important American ornithological work, inscribed by Prince Bonaparte to his cousin and with additional uncoloured states of the plates in volume four.

(#22742) $ 12,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHRISTIAN LUDWIG BREHM

Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands.

Ilmenau: Druck und Verlag von Bernh. Friedr. Voight, 1831. Thick 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 inches). xxiv, 1085, [3] pp. 47 hand- coloured engraved plates by Müller after Bädeker. Original paper-backed plain boards, paper spine label.

First edition of a "classic treatise on mid-European avifauna" (Wood).

(#28107) $ 1,100. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHARLES BARNEY CORY

Beautiful and Curious Birds of the World.

Boston: published by the author for the subscribers, 1883. Folio (26 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches). Letterpress title (verso blank), preface leaf (verso blank), dedication to Joel Asaph Allen (verso blank), contents leaf (verso blank), 20 text leaves. 20 lithographed plates (18 hand-colored) after Joseph Smit and others, printed by M. & N. Hanhart or Forbes & Co. of Boston. Contemporary black morocco gilt, gilt turn-ins, silk doublures and linings (rebacked, a few small repairs to edges). Cloth folding box.

"A very rare book" (Bennett), limited to 200 copies, with beautiful plates on a grand scale including some of Smit's finest work.

(#26499) $ 29,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

GEORGE EDWARDS

The Bustard Cock [and] The Hen Bustard ... [Pair of ornithological watercolours signed, depicting a male and female Great Bustard].

London: 1746. Watercolour and gouache on laid paper, signed and dated within the images and with pen-and-ink inscriptions concerning the sizes of the birds. Sheet sizes: approx. 16 3/4 x 13 3/8 inches. Matted.

A lovely pair of original watercolours by George Edwards.

(#33072) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT

A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants.

New York: published for the Author, [1870]-1872. 2 volumes, folio (23 5/16 x 18 1/2 inches). 2pp. subscriber's list. 79 fine hand-colored lithographic plates (including 1 folding plate of feathers) after Joseph Wolf by Joseph Smit (58) or John Gerrard Keulemans (21), printed by M. & N. Hanhart and P.W.M. Trap, colored by J.D. White, 2 uncolored lithographic plates by and after Smit, on India paper mounted. Contemporary half dark purple morocco and purple cloth covered boards, spine with wide bands in six compartments, tooled in gilt on and on either side of each band, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Archer (armorial bookplate).

A very fine copy of the most splendid of Elliot's great monographs, and a rare American contribution to this elegant class of books.

(#35226) $ 140,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT

The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America.

New York: Published by the Author, [1866-1869]. 2 volumes, large folio. 1p. list of subscribers. 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates (including the additional "Parus occidentalis" plate between plates I and II in vol.I; 1 plate by and after Elliot and Joseph Wolf, printed by D. McClellan & Brothers; 72 printed and coloured by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia, drawn on stone by Ch. P. Tholey (11) and others, 21 wood-engraved vignette illustrations by W.J. Linton after Edwin Sheppard. Contemporary 19th-century green half morocco over green cloth-covered boards.

A spectacular work with very fine generally life-size hand- coloured lithographs of species not previously pictured by either Alexander Wilson or John James Audubon, and particularly on birds of the American West, here with an additional plate that is not recorded by the standard bibliographies.

(#33108) $ 36,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN GOULD

A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands.

London: published by the Author, 1837-1838. 4 parts in one (all published), imperial octavo (10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches). {\rtf1 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Elizabeth Gould. 1p. contents list, 8pp. appendix "Description of New Species of Australian Birds"}. Expertly bound to style in half green morocco and period green pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt, yellow endpapers, gilt edges.

Rare coloured issue of Gould's first attempt to describe the birds of Australia.

(#31309) $ 18,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN GOULD

A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.

London: Richard & John E. Taylor for the Author, [November 1844 - March 1846 - November] 1850. Folio (21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches). 1p. list of subscribers. 32 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates after Gould and H. C. Richter. Contemporary green morocco gilt by Clyde, covers with wide decorative border tooled in gilt and blind with fillets and decorative rolls, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat decoration in gilt made up from various small tools, stylized foliage tools and a large central rococo tool, gilt turn-ins, cream/yellow glazed endpapers, gilt edges, expert repairs to spine and extremities.

A fine copy of the first edition of Gould's fourth monograph, in which he considerably enlarged the number of recorded species of the American partridge family.

(#33110) $ 20,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

RICHARD PULTENEY AND THOMAS RACKETT

Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants, of Dorsetshire. From the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchins’s history of that county ... With additions; and a brief memoir of the author.

[London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1813]. Folio (19 1/2 x 12 inches). Text in two columns. iv, 110pp. Engraved portrait, 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets. Uncut. Some foxing. Later cloth-backed grey paper boards.

Large-paper issue of the first illustrated edition of a rare catalogue of British birds, plants and shells.

(#33764) $ 3,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN RAY AND FRANÇOIS SALERNE

L'Histoire Naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales l'ornithologie, qui traite des oiseaux de terre, de mer et de riviere.

Paris: Debure Pere, 1767. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Half- title. xii, [4], 464pp. 31 engraved plates, engraved by and after Martinet, including the allegorical frontispiece. Contemporary mottled calf, covers bordered in blind, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

The first French edition of the ornithological portions of Ray's Synopsis methodica avium & piscium (London, 1713),

(#35236) $ 2,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

BARON LIONEL WALTER ROTHSCHILD

The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands: with a Complete History to Date of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possessions.

London: Taylor & Francis for R.H. Porter, 1893-1900. 3 parts in two volumes, imperial quarto. 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates, 6 tinted lithographic views and 2 uncoloured plates of anatomical details, all by and after J.G. Keulemans and F.W. Frohawk, printed by the Mintern Brothers, 20 colotype plates after Williams, printed by Bedford Lemaire & Co. Original publisher's pink wrappers bound in (part 2 front wrapper bound in as the title to the second vol., the other wrappers in the rear of vol. 2). Early half morocco and cloth covered boards, spines with raised bands lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.

The rare first edition of one of the most valuable records of the bird life of Hawaii: limited to 250 copies.

(#35237) $ 35,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

BARON LIONEL WALTER ROTHSCHILD

An album of original watercolour drawings of Cassowaries, with related manuscript title "Kasuare / Walter Rothschild."

London: 1899. Oblong octavo. Black ink calligraphic manuscript title, manuscript map of New Guinea, northern extremities of Australia and surrounding islands, hand- coloured, 7 plates of pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings of various species of cassowary (the first five plates each with three heads, the sixth plate with two heads and the final plate with a fine full-length study of an adult and a young bird). Loosely inserted is an early manuscript listing of various species of the birds. Provenance: Otto Fockelmann (of Hamburg, near-contemporary signature).

Pre-publication presentation manuscript with watercolour drawings depicting the 17 species or sub-species of Cassowaries identified by Rothschild in his "Monograph of the genus Casuarius" published in 1900.

(#21824) $ 28,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

EDWARD A. SAMUELS

Ornithology and Oölogy of New England.

Boston: Nichols and Noyes, 1868. 8vo (10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches). 24 chromolithographed plates by John H. Buffords, 4 hand- coloured line engravings. Contemporary half brown morocco and brown cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

A deluxe large paper, fully coloured issue.

(#35301) $ 800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER

A Monograph of the Jacamars and the Puff- Birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae.

London: printed by Taylor & Francis, published for the Author by R.H. Porter, October 1879-July 1882. 7 parts in one volume, royal quarto (12 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches). 1p. list of subscribers, letterpress title with wood-engraved vignette. 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates by John Gerrard Keulemans, printed by Hanhart. With the original parts front wrappers bound in the rear. Early red half morocco and red pebble-grained cloth-covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments.

First edition of this beautifully-illustrated monograph, limited to 250 copies, with plates by Keulemans: "the major bird book illustrator" of his time (Jackson).

(#34424) $ 7,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE

Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes by the late Ferdinand Stoliczka ... Aves.

London: published by order of the Government of India, printed by Taylor and Francis, 1891. Folio. 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates, by J. Smit (2), J.G. Keulemans (15), W. Hart (3) and one other, printed by Hanhart, each mounted on a guard, 1 folding zincographed map, hand-coloured in outline. Original grey/green paper upper wrapper, letterpress titling to the upper wrapper, the lower wrapper supplied with near uniform paper (neat repairs to the upper cover and spine). Housed in a green morocco backed folding box. Provenance: J.E. Gordon (early signature on the title).

The complete ornithological section of the official scientific results of an important government-supported expedition in India.

(#23863) $ 5,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

GEORGE ERNEST SHELLEY

A Monograph of the Nectariniidae or Family of Sun-Birds.

London: published by the author, 1876-1880. 4to. 121 hand- coloured lithographic plates by J.G. Keulemans. Contemporary green half morocco and cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

One of 250 copies.

(#36169) $ 13,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SARAH STONE

[Pair of Original Watercolors of a Buffle- Headed Duck and a King Eider Duck, attributed to Stone].

[London: ca. 1780-1790]. Two watercolours, each on laid paper, each approximately 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches. Matted and framed. Metal leaf gold frames, French mats. 21 x 24 1/2 inches.

Two original watercolours by Sarah Stone of American species of ducks.

(#32992) $ 18,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SARAH STONE

[Pennantian Parrot, Female].

[London: circa 1800]. Watercolour and gouache drawing, on wove paper. Sheet size: 9 x 6 5/8 inches.

An original watercolour attributed to Sarah Stone of an Australian parrot.

(#37358) $ 8,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JACOB HENRY STUDER

Studer's Popular Ornithology. The Birds of North America.

Columbus, Ohio: published by Jacob H. Studer & Co, 1881. Small folio. 119 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's deluxe burgundy morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind.

Rare example in the publisher's deluxe full morocco binding.

(#35364) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FRANCIS WILLUGHBY AND JOHN RAY

The Ornithology of Francis Willughby ... In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known ... are accurately described. Translated into English, with many additions. To which are added three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling ... II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry. By John Ray.

London: John Martyn, 1678. 3 parts in one volume, folio. Title printed in red & black. 80 engraved plates (2 unnumbered, plus plates numbered 1-78), 2 letterpress tables. Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century russia and marbled paper covered boards.

First edition in English of "one of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time, being the first systematic classification of the birds of the world" (Wood).

(#32389) $ 6,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ALEXANDER WILSON

American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Illustrated with plates engraved and coloured from original drawings taken from nature.

New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co. and Harrison Hall, 1828-1829. 4 volumes. (text: 3 vols., quartO, plates: 1 vol. folio. Text: cxcix, [1], 231, [1]; vi, 456 [without a leaf number vii-viii, as usual]; vi, 396pp. 4pp. subscribers' list at rear of vol.III. Atlas: 76 hand-coloured engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic, by A. Lawson (52), J.G. Warnicke (21), G. Murray (2), and B. Tanner (1), all after Wilson. Expertly bound to style in half red morocco period purple cloth covered boards, flat spines gilt, marbled endpapers.

The second full edition of Wilson's work, with plates in their most desirable form, and with the very rare large paper issue of the text. "Science would lose little if every scrap of pre-Wilsonian writing about United States birds could be annihilated" (Coues).

(#36174) $ 25,000.