RICHARDSON, JOHN and WILLIAM SWAINSON Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. [Part First... Quadrupeds Part Second...Birds]. London: John Murray 1829-1831 [ie., -1832]. 2 vols., 4to, 277 x 220mm. (10 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.), original cloth-backed boards, original paper title labels on spines, uncut, vol. 1 partly unopened, vol. 2 with a small printed slip tipped in at front regarding the possibility of binding the volume as two vols., vol. 1 inner hinges split, vol. 2 broken, lacking errata slip in vol. 2, foxing to etched plates in vol. 1, very minor marginal foxing to 3 or 4 plates in vol. 2, tear to index leaf 3T4 (vol. 2) . FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 27 uncolored etched plates and one full-page wood-engraving of quadrupeds, most by Thomas Landseer 50 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds after drawings by Swainson, text wood engravings. The four volumes of Richardson's Fauna Boreali-Americana include the results of his observations during his tenure as surgeon and naturalist on John Frankin's two land expeditions to the British-governed fur-trading regions of North America. "The influence which this work exerted cannot well be overstated... it was the unique source of inspiration of numberless writers upon the sane subject, and it continues to be a standard authority" (E. Coues, American Ornithological Biography , 4 vols., Washington 1878-80, vol. 1, p. 50) . Ayer/Zimmer, p. 521; Copenhagen/Anker 493; Jackson Lithography , p. 28; McGill/Wood, p. 536; Nissen IVB 773; Nissen ZBI 3385; Sabin 71026. Provenance : Daniel Webster(1782-1852), armorial bookplates Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (2)
RICHARDSON, JOHN and WILLIAM SWAINSON Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. [Part First... Quadrupeds Part Second...Birds]. London: John Murray 1829-1831 [ie., -1832]. 2 vols., 4to, 277 x 220mm. (10 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.), original cloth-backed boards, original paper title labels on spines, uncut, vol. 1 partly unopened, vol. 2 with a small printed slip tipped in at front regarding the possibility of binding the volume as two vols., vol. 1 inner hinges split, vol. 2 broken, lacking errata slip in vol. 2, foxing to etched plates in vol. 1, very minor marginal foxing to 3 or 4 plates in vol. 2, tear to index leaf 3T4 (vol. 2) . FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 27 uncolored etched plates and one full-page wood-engraving of quadrupeds, most by Thomas Landseer 50 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds after drawings by Swainson, text wood engravings. The four volumes of Richardson's Fauna Boreali-Americana include the results of his observations during his tenure as surgeon and naturalist on John Frankin's two land expeditions to the British-governed fur-trading regions of North America. "The influence which this work exerted cannot well be overstated... it was the unique source of inspiration of numberless writers upon the sane subject, and it continues to be a standard authority" (E. Coues, American Ornithological Biography , 4 vols., Washington 1878-80, vol. 1, p. 50) . Ayer/Zimmer, p. 521; Copenhagen/Anker 493; Jackson Lithography , p. 28; McGill/Wood, p. 536; Nissen IVB 773; Nissen ZBI 3385; Sabin 71026. Provenance : Daniel Webster(1782-1852), armorial bookplates Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (2)
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