[Rarebooks] FS: PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY with 81 beautiful color plates

[Charles Agvent]

One of several fine ornithological titles from our new catalog--SUMMER 
MISCELLANY 2014--which contains 127 select items, all new arrivals, in a 
variety of fields. Highlights include the scarce First Issue of 
Shakespeare's POEMS [1709] in a beautiful Cosway binding; Thoreau's 
WORKS with a leaf of manuscript mentioning Walden Pond; one of 25 
special copies of the Gregynog Aesop; Louise Bryant's acting copy of 
Eugene O'Neill's first book along with several John Reed association 
copies; a long run of signed and limited Raymond Carver titles; the 
first book of music by a Native American; a lengthy unpublished 
manuscript about Alaskan gold by poet Joaquin Miller; several 
ornithological works including Brisson's ORNITHOLOGIE, Lewin's BIRDS OF 
GREAT BRITAIN, most with beautiful hand-colored plates, and others; some 
scarce modern poetry and signed presidential books; signed copies of 
Emerson's POEMS, Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING; and much more.


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GREENE, W. T . PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY. London: George Bell and Sons, 
1884-87. First Edition. Three large octavo (6-3/4" x 10") volumes bound 
in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, the first two volumes in dark green 
with a gilt parrot on the front cover and the third volume in olive 
green with the title and a caged parrot in gilt on the front cover. 
Illustrated with 81 lovely color xylographic plates with hand-coloring, 
some heightened with gum arabic, of macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, 
parakeets, and lovebirds. Intended primarily as a guide for those 
interested in keeping parrots as pets, the publisher spared neither 
pains nor expense to make the work as attractive as possible. A Fine set 
with bright and clean plates, increasingly uncommon as such.
FINE BIRD BOOKS, page 103; NISSEN 393; ZIMMER, page 274. (#017494)    
     $5,000.00

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