[Rarebooks] FS: NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK, 1844, with 140 hand-colored plates of birds, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $950,      Now $850

DE KAY, James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]. NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 
ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK, OR THE NEW YORK FAUNA.... PART II. BIRDS. Albany: 
Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in 
publisher's half brown morocco leather. Illustrated with 140 (of 141) 
hand-colored lithographs of birds and containing "detailed descriptions 
of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with 
brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders." Lacks plate 
84, likely never bound in. Moderate foxing to just a few pages of the 
text. The plates are clean with varying degrees of offsetting affecting 
about 20% of them, usually with little detriment. Some rubbing to the 
corners and spine. Very Good copy of this important book. (#009440)    
     $850.00

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