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ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915) A Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or family of the Grouse . New York: published by the author, [1864-]1865.
ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915) A Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or family of the Grouse . New York: published by the author, [1864-]1865. Folio (591 x 471 mm). Mounted on guards throughout . Title, dedication, list of subscribers (65 names for 71 copies), 7pp. introduction, explanation page, list of plates. 25 fine hand-colored lithographic plates by C.F. Tholey after Elliot and J. Wolf, 2 hand-colored plates of eggs after W.S. Morgan, all printed by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. (Plate 1 with some marginal soiling, one text leaf with marginal repaired tear, another with semicircular repair, some intermittent pale offsetting and marginal staining, a few tiny chips to corners, colors generally fresh and bright.) Period-style half green morocco gilt, preserving the original cloth boards; cloth folding case. Provenance : Dean Sage, author of The Restigouche and its Salmon Fishing , and renowned collector of sporting books (bookplate). 'NEXT ONLY TO AUDUBON'S, THE ELLIOT WORKS ARE THE MOST VALUABLE AMERICAN BIRD PLATES' (Bennett). DEAN SAGE’S COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ORNITHOLOGICAL WORKS TO BE PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN AMERICA. The second of Elliot's great folio monographs, dealing with 25 species (all then known); 24 of the plates are from Elliot's own drawings and one, of the Kunalee Grouse in part one, is after Joseph Wolf The lithographic work was carried out by Bowen & Co., the publishers of the octavo edition of Audubon's Birds of America and arguably the best lithographic printers in the United States at the time. This is one of only three works by Elliot produced in the United States; his later works were printed in Europe, though some retain a New York imprint. Anker/Copenhagen 128; Ayer/Zimmer p.205; Bennett, p.19; Fine Bird Books p.74; Nissen IVB 293; Wood p.331.