[Rarebooks] FS: Atlas for Wilson's AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, 1829, with 76 Gorgeous Hand-Colored Plates, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $15,000 NET

WILSON, Alexander [HAND-COLORED PLATES]. Atlas Volume of Plates for 
AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED 
STATES. New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co/Harrison Hall, 1829. Folio 
(11-1/2" x 14-1/2") bound in contemporary half brown leather with 
leather corners, though the spine is lacking and both covers are 
detached. The atlas volume only consisting of a title page and 76 
beautiful hand-colored plates, mostly multi-image. Wood (p. 360) notes 
that "the hand-colored drawings in the atlas are from the original 
copper plates, colored anew by pigments which seem to have been of 
better quality than those used by Wilson" in the first edition published 
15 - 20 years earlier. A superb American production. Along with Audubon 
it is one of the color plate masterpieces of the 19th century, but 
significantly less expensive to obtain though becoming very difficult to 
locate. Colors still bright, occasional and light spot of foxing or 
small stain, but generally quite clean with most tissue guards still 
present. Minor edge tear on one or two plates not extending into image; 
a few plates detached. Both endpapers and blanks wrinkled to varying 
degrees. (#010555)        $20,000.00

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