[Rarebooks] FS: Wilson's AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, 1832, with 97 hand-colored plates

[Charles Agvent]

 From our Fall Catalog of 60 New Arrivals now posted on our website: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com. It contains a fine miscellany, most of 
this caliber, in a variety of fields including Literature, Presidential, 
Hand-colored Plates, Autograph Letters, Early Printing, Americana, etc. 
  We will be bringing many of these items to the Boston Book Fair, Nov. 
13-15 at the Hynes Auditorium, where we will cohabit booth 503.

WILSON, Alexander & BONAPARTE, Charles. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR, THE 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. London/Edinburgh: 
Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot/Stirling & Kenney, 1832. First Edition. 
Three octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") volumes bound in green half morocco and 
marbled boards with matching morocco corners, rebacked some time ago 
with the original spines laid down. The first and best of the octavo 
editions. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson 
in his shooting costume and 97 fine hand-colored plates. Wood (page 630) 
notes that the text is a reprint of Wilson's original text including the 
later notes by Jardine as well as a reprint of the first three volumes 
(all then published) of Bonaparte's AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. The original 
plates of both authors were re-engraved by Lizars on a smaller scale on 
glazed drawing paper. Wood also notes that the backgrounds of the plates 
were left uncolored. This is one of the less frequently encountered sets 
with the backgrounds fully colored. The plates in this copy are very 
clean, bright, and with very little foxing. There is light offsetting to 
the text opposing the plates due to a lack of tissue guards.  The 
gutters of each volume are reinforced with cloth tape. The covers are 
tight. All in all, an attractive, clean set of this important work. 
$3,500.00	

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