[Rarebooks] FS: ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK, 1844, with 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds

[Charles Agvent]

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 gilt-decorated cloth, lacking the spine. Illustrated with an 
engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly 
two per image, 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." One of only 300 copies where 
the plates were colored. Moderate foxing, mostly to the text with just 
some plates affected. Most of the plates contain small, neat pencil 
identifications of the birds but are otherwise clean. Text block is 
cracked with one plate detached but present. A Good, complete set of 
these plates. (#017495)        $700

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