Wilson, Alexander, and Charles Lucian Bonaparte. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES… THE ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, AND LIFE OF WILSON, BY SIR WILLIAM JARDINE LONDON: WHITTAKER, TREACHER, & ARNOTT AND EDINBURGH: STIRLING AND KENNEY, 1832 3 volumes, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), half-titles in volumes 1 and 2 (lacking in vol.3), engraved portrait of Wilson, 97 hand-coloured engraved plates by W.H. Lizars after Wilson and others, including one plate with a figure by J.J. Audubon, 2 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, sectional title to Bonaparte’s text, contemporary green half morocco, occasional spotting and browning, portrait offset to following page, inkblot affecting first few pages of vol.2, a few plate numbers and captions cropped
Wilson, Alexander, and Charles Lucian Bonaparte. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES… THE ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, AND LIFE OF WILSON, BY SIR WILLIAM JARDINE LONDON: WHITTAKER, TREACHER, & ARNOTT AND EDINBURGH: STIRLING AND KENNEY, 1832 3 volumes, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), half-titles in volumes 1 and 2 (lacking in vol.3), engraved portrait of Wilson, 97 hand-coloured engraved plates by W.H. Lizars after Wilson and others, including one plate with a figure by J.J. Audubon, 2 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, sectional title to Bonaparte’s text, contemporary green half morocco, occasional spotting and browning, portrait offset to following page, inkblot affecting first few pages of vol.2, a few plate numbers and captions cropped
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