[Rarebooks] FS: Wild Swan Studies, 1832

[Bob Petrilla]

Yarrell, William. DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGAN OF VOICE IN A NEW SPECIES OF
WILD SWAN (CYGNUS BUCCINATOR, RICHARDSON): Transactions of the Linnean
Society. Read March 20, 1832. s.l.: s.n., 1832. Small folio. pp: 10, 13-19,
71-76 pages : one b&w plate (sternum and trachea), two full-color plates
(fishes: The Graining, The Azurine; Apteryx Australis). The b&w plate has
spotty foxing; the color plates are clean. Bound in paper-backed blue
boards; spine perished, boards loose. 12.5" x 10" Good . Original Boards.
Presentation copy. Written large on the title leaf: "Academy of Natural
Sciences / of Philadelphia / From the author / London / Sept. 29th, 1833."
Unused Academy bookplate on front pastedown, no accession marks. [WorldCat
notes: "Description of the organ of voice in a new species of wild swan
(cygnus buccinator, Richardson) -- Descriptions of three British species of
fresh-water fishes belonging to the genus leuciscus of Klein --
Observations on the laws which appear to influence the assumption & changes
of plumage in birds -- Description ...of the apteryx australis of Shaw." ~
No holdings with the three plates are recorded.]   $125.00

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