WILSON, ALEXANDER. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep 1808-1814. 9 vols., 4to, 352 x 265mm. (13 7/8 x 10 1/4in.) for vol. 1, slight variation in size for the rest, vols. 5-9 from another set and uncut, all in original red half roan over marbled boards, worn, upper covers of vols. 5 and 9 detached, most plates offset to text, usual browning and staining to many plates. FIRST EDITION, second state of vol. 1, p. 33 (line 23 sentence beginning: "I have myself"), 76 hand-colored engraved plates by A. Lawson, J.G. Warnicke, G. Murray and B. Tanner after Wilson's drawings. Beginning its publication twenty years prior to Audubon's Birds of (9)
WILSON, ALEXANDER. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep 1808-1814. 9 vols., 4to, 352 x 265mm. (13 7/8 x 10 1/4in.) for vol. 1, slight variation in size for the rest, vols. 5-9 from another set and uncut, all in original red half roan over marbled boards, worn, upper covers of vols. 5 and 9 detached, most plates offset to text, usual browning and staining to many plates. FIRST EDITION, second state of vol. 1, p. 33 (line 23 sentence beginning: "I have myself"), 76 hand-colored engraved plates by A. Lawson, J.G. Warnicke, G. Murray and B. Tanner after Wilson's drawings. Beginning its publication twenty years prior to Audubon's Birds of (9)
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