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Edinburgh: Constable, 1831. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. Volume I only. A Poor but complete copy (1989 gift inscriprion) in three-quarter brown leather over marbles paper-covered boards. Lacks the spine covering. The front cover is detached but present, and the rear cover is nearly detached. The text block binding is sound, the text is clean, and the frontispiece is present. A reading/binding copy of this small-format 1831 edition. (No plates in this volume, as issued.)

Edinburgh Constable, 1831-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1836 Four volumes1-4 in acceptable condition from constable pocket editions on dark green cloth - vol I has splits down side spine seams & Vol II is missing part of spine cover whilst vol III & IV are intact but all slightly loose bindings

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Popular Edition. Green boards. Previous owner's ink stamp on second page. Light wear to boards. No date present. Text and illustrations very good, side tear on page 39 of volume I, pressed plant removed along spine of page 209, volume II. Expedited or International shipping may cost more, heavy book.

PHILADELPHIA, PORTER AND COATES, 1878. THE POPULAR EDITION, THREE VOLUMES IN ONE. THICK SMALL QUARTO. pp. 214, 390, 426. CONTAINS A LONG ESSAY ON THE LIFE OF WILSON. REBOUND USING THE ORIGINAL RED BEVELLED BOARDS AND SPINE, NEW ENDPAPERS, REPAIRED TITLE PAGE. ILLUSTRATED WITH 103 PLATES ENGRAVED FROM DRAWINGS FROM NATURE, FOUR PER PAGE. SOME SLIGHT WEAR TO THE BOARDS AND FOXING TO THE EDGES OF THE PLATE ONLY. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. NO DATE BUT CIRCA 1878. VERY SCARCE IN THE UK.

Edinburgh: Constable and Co., 1831. 3/4 leather. very good. 4 Volumes. 24mo. (6" x 4"). Frontispieces in each volume, frontispiece for volume 1 is bound in before the introduction. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over green cloth. Red leather title labels. Four raised bands. Marble endpapers and edges. Some occasional foxing. Corners slightly bumped. Bookplates of former owner in front pastedowns of each volume. Name of another prior owner in each volume. A handsome set. This is the first European edition of Wilson's American Birds. Originally published in America in 9 vols in quarto. The first three volumes are arranged to be accessible to the general reader and the ornithologist. Volume 1 is prefixed by a biographical memoir by Mr. Hetherington. The fourth volume contains the American Ornithology of Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte. Besides the frontispieces, these works do not reproduce any of the plates from the original.

PORTER AND COATES, 1878-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback (volume 2 only), with some damage, minor tears or rips to spine, and creasing and discolouring to pages due to age. Still very useable.

London: Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot; Stirling & Kenney [Edin]., 1832. 3 volumes octavo set with portrait frontis of the auther Alexander Wilson. Pub. original grey boards with new paper labels to the new grey matching spines. CLEAN TEXT BLOCK AND CLEAN UNCOLOURED ORIGINAL PLATESWith a continuation by Charles Lucian Bonaparte and notes etc. by Sir William Jardine Bart. 408pp;390pp;523pp with 27; 59;76 un-coloured plates and a continuation by Charles Lucian Nonaparte 18 plates. The original plates of both authors were re-engraved by Lizars on a smaller scale and uncoloured in this three volume set.. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co., 1828-1829. 3 quarto text volumes plus a large folio atlas First of the Edition, the second overall with text and plates greatly improved from the first edition published between 1808 and 1814. A copy with pleasing provenance, passed down through the Reath family of Philadelphia, PA, first owned by Thomas Reath who emigrated from Ireland to the United States (1792-1877), then by his son Benjamin B. Reath (1822-1891), then by his son Thomas (1859-1930), then by his son Thomas Jr. (1890-1975) and finally by his son and grandchild. A copy that has remained in private hands since its publication. Beautifully illustrated with seventy-six handcoloured engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by A. Lawson (52), J.G. Warnicke (21), G. Murray (2), and B. Tanner (1), all after Wilson, the most preferred state of the plates. Quarto and Folio, handsomely bound to style in three-quarter polished brown crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the… Read More