ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America. New York: Published by the author [1866-] 1869. 2 vols., large folio, 600 x 475mm. (23 5/8 x 18 3/4in.), twentieth-century red half morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, List of Plates leaf and Falco Candicans text leaves nearly detached at inner margins in vol. 2 (one with tiny repair), one-inch marginal tear to Plate 56 in vol. 2. FIRST EDITION, 72 hand-colored lithographed plates after Elliot, Joseph Wolf and Edwin Sheppard (one), by Bowen & Co. and C.F. Tholey, 21 India proof wood engravings by W.J. Linton after Sheppard mounted in text, directions to binder slip at end of vol. 2. (2)
ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America. New York: Published by the author [1866-] 1869. 2 vols., large folio, 600 x 475mm. (23 5/8 x 18 3/4in.), twentieth-century red half morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, List of Plates leaf and Falco Candicans text leaves nearly detached at inner margins in vol. 2 (one with tiny repair), one-inch marginal tear to Plate 56 in vol. 2. FIRST EDITION, 72 hand-colored lithographed plates after Elliot, Joseph Wolf and Edwin Sheppard (one), by Bowen & Co. and C.F. Tholey, 21 India proof wood engravings by W.J. Linton after Sheppard mounted in text, directions to binder slip at end of vol. 2. (2)
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