The birds of North America … drawn and colored from nature including a copious text … Theodore Jasper, editor and proprietor.
New York: Natural Science Assn. of America, 1888. Large 4to, pp. [10], 182; title-p. printed in red and black; engraved portrait frontispiece, 119 chromolithograph plates "representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds, including a popular account of their habits and characteristics." Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., the whole recased and rebacked in black pebble-grain cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; tissue guards browning but otherwise a nice copy. Another edition of Nissen I, 473; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, p.145. Item #26485
Price: $750.00
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