[Rarebooks] FS: BIRDS OF PREY ... OF CANADA, 1876, with 30 Mounted Albumen Photographs

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recent catalog: Summer Miscellany with 85 select items in a 
variety of fields.  See the catalog here: 
*http://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/pdfs/Summer2017.pdf*

VENNOR, Henry G. OUR BIRDS OF PREY, OR THE EAGLES, HAWKS AND OWLS OF 
CANADA. Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1876. First Edition. Quarto (7-3/4" x 
10-3/4") in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 30 
mounted albumen photograph plates on printed mounts by the 
Scottish-Canadian photographer William Notman, including the 
frontispiece depicting a bald eagle. The introduction notes that "the 
pictures produced by it are not only beautiful, but truthful to the most 
minute detail" and contains "every species of Falcon, Hawk, Buzzard, 
Harrier, Eagle and Owl, which has up to the present time been found in 
Canada." William Notman published a popular series of books of 
photographic portraits to 1868, including Longfellow and Buffalo Bill, 
after which he only worked on books produced by other artists, such as 
this. Accompanying Vennor's detailed text stemming from months spent 
outdoors studying the birds, Notman's photographs are early examples in 
the field of natural history. Light wear to the binding; the photographs 
are fresh. Near Fine.

Lande 2277; Wood 610; Zimmer p.652. (#018521)        $1,000.00

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