EMMONS, EBENEZER. Catalogues of the Animals and Plants of Massachusetts. With a Copious Index, Amherst 1835, contemporary half roan, foxing , First separate edition, a shorter form originally published in Edward Hitchcock's Report on the Geology, Botany and Zoology of Massachusetts (1833), not in Coues, Sabin or Zimmer, JOHN CASSIN'S COPY, with his signature on front flyleaf, dated Dec. 4th 1862, Philadelphia -- WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY. A History of British Land Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, London 1842-39-40-52, 5 vols., 8vo, half calf, spines gilt, morocco lettering-pieces, inner joints split, lacking plates 10-13, a few plates marginally dampstained , Second edition of vol. 1, First edition of vols. 2-5, half-titles in vols. 2-5, 25 (of 29) engraved plates after MacGillivray, text wood engravings, Ayer/Zimmer, p. 409, McGill/Wood, p. 446, Nissen BBI 584 -- JOHN CASSIN. "Ornithology of the United States, and British and Russian America", extracted from: United States Magazine, Vol. III, Nos. 1-3 & 6, and vol. IV, no. 1 (July-September & December 1856, and January 1857), bound together in half red morocco, original printed upper wrappers preserved , with AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from Cassin to a Mr. Lawrence, Philadelphia, 12 October 1857, 2 pages, 8vo, on blue stationery , tipped in at front, advising Lawrence to read an article on larns in Cabanis's Journal for Ornithology , July 1855; [Eight articles by Cassin on various species of American birds, most extracted from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences , 1850-51, bound together in half dark blue calf, one plate cropped , six hand-colored engraved plates, John E. Thayer, bookplate -- JOHN BIGLAND. A Natural History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects [- of Animals], Philadelphia 1845, 2 vols. in one, 12mo, contemporary half roan, upper hinge split and spine leather detached, engraved titles and first frontispiece cropped, plates a trifle discolored and offset , FIRST EDITIONS, each with 12 hand-colored engraved plates, including additional engraved titles, not in Sabin; together 9 vols., 8vo except as noted, some wear to bindings . Provenance : Emmons, Catalogues : John Cassin (1813-1869), as above Cassin [Eight articles]: Colonel John Eliot Thayer (1862-1933), bookplate Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (9)
EMMONS, EBENEZER. Catalogues of the Animals and Plants of Massachusetts. With a Copious Index, Amherst 1835, contemporary half roan, foxing , First separate edition, a shorter form originally published in Edward Hitchcock's Report on the Geology, Botany and Zoology of Massachusetts (1833), not in Coues, Sabin or Zimmer, JOHN CASSIN'S COPY, with his signature on front flyleaf, dated Dec. 4th 1862, Philadelphia -- WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY. A History of British Land Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, London 1842-39-40-52, 5 vols., 8vo, half calf, spines gilt, morocco lettering-pieces, inner joints split, lacking plates 10-13, a few plates marginally dampstained , Second edition of vol. 1, First edition of vols. 2-5, half-titles in vols. 2-5, 25 (of 29) engraved plates after MacGillivray, text wood engravings, Ayer/Zimmer, p. 409, McGill/Wood, p. 446, Nissen BBI 584 -- JOHN CASSIN. "Ornithology of the United States, and British and Russian America", extracted from: United States Magazine, Vol. III, Nos. 1-3 & 6, and vol. IV, no. 1 (July-September & December 1856, and January 1857), bound together in half red morocco, original printed upper wrappers preserved , with AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from Cassin to a Mr. Lawrence, Philadelphia, 12 October 1857, 2 pages, 8vo, on blue stationery , tipped in at front, advising Lawrence to read an article on larns in Cabanis's Journal for Ornithology , July 1855; [Eight articles by Cassin on various species of American birds, most extracted from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences , 1850-51, bound together in half dark blue calf, one plate cropped , six hand-colored engraved plates, John E. Thayer, bookplate -- JOHN BIGLAND. A Natural History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects [- of Animals], Philadelphia 1845, 2 vols. in one, 12mo, contemporary half roan, upper hinge split and spine leather detached, engraved titles and first frontispiece cropped, plates a trifle discolored and offset , FIRST EDITIONS, each with 12 hand-colored engraved plates, including additional engraved titles, not in Sabin; together 9 vols., 8vo except as noted, some wear to bindings . Provenance : Emmons, Catalogues : John Cassin (1813-1869), as above Cassin [Eight articles]: Colonel John Eliot Thayer (1862-1933), bookplate Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (9)
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