VARIOUS PROPERTIES [AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES]. WILLIAM MacGILLIVRAY. Descriptions of the Rapacious Birds of Great Britain. Edinburgh: MacLachlan & Stewart...1836. 8vo, original pebbled green cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut, top of spine and fore-corners worn, heel of spine slightly frayed, label rubbed, endpapers cracked at inner hinges. FIRST EDITION, 2 lithographed plates after MacGillivray, 20 woodcuts in the text by Sclater after MacGillivray, THE DEDICATION COPY, inscribed by the author in ink at top of title-page: "To Mr. Audubon, with the author's best wishes." The printed dedication reads: "To John James Audubon in admiration of his talents as an ornithologist, and in gratitude for many acts of friendship, this volume is dedicated by William MacGillivray." William MacGillivray (1796-1852), the Aberdeen naturalist specializing in comparative anatomy, assisted Audubon with his Ornithological Biography (Edinburgh 1831-1839), not, as Audubon noted in the introduction to the first volume of that work, "in writing the book...but in completing the scientific details, and smoothing down the asperities..." Eight years later in his introduction to the fifth and final volume, Audubon also acknowledged MacGillivray's abilities as a teacher: "Under his kind tuition, I think I have learned something of anatomy which may enable me, at some future period, to produce observations that may prove interesting." Aside from this collaboration on what is essentially the text of The Birds of America , MacGillivray was also largely responsible for the text of Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839). MacGillivray's own best-known work is A History of British Birds (1837-1852). Ayer/Zimmer, p. 409; McGill/Wood, p. 446. Provenance : William MacGillivray, as above John James Audubon John Woodhouse Audubon who has signed the title-page "J. W. Audubon" Maria Audubon (daughter of John Woodhouse Audubon son of John James Audubon , bookplate inside front cover Ruthven Deane, note is pasted to front free endpaper: "...This book, with other volumes, was bequeathed to me by Maria R. Audubon...who died...1925..." H. Bradley Martin bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 6 June 1989, lot 38).
VARIOUS PROPERTIES [AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES]. WILLIAM MacGILLIVRAY. Descriptions of the Rapacious Birds of Great Britain. Edinburgh: MacLachlan & Stewart...1836. 8vo, original pebbled green cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut, top of spine and fore-corners worn, heel of spine slightly frayed, label rubbed, endpapers cracked at inner hinges. FIRST EDITION, 2 lithographed plates after MacGillivray, 20 woodcuts in the text by Sclater after MacGillivray, THE DEDICATION COPY, inscribed by the author in ink at top of title-page: "To Mr. Audubon, with the author's best wishes." The printed dedication reads: "To John James Audubon in admiration of his talents as an ornithologist, and in gratitude for many acts of friendship, this volume is dedicated by William MacGillivray." William MacGillivray (1796-1852), the Aberdeen naturalist specializing in comparative anatomy, assisted Audubon with his Ornithological Biography (Edinburgh 1831-1839), not, as Audubon noted in the introduction to the first volume of that work, "in writing the book...but in completing the scientific details, and smoothing down the asperities..." Eight years later in his introduction to the fifth and final volume, Audubon also acknowledged MacGillivray's abilities as a teacher: "Under his kind tuition, I think I have learned something of anatomy which may enable me, at some future period, to produce observations that may prove interesting." Aside from this collaboration on what is essentially the text of The Birds of America , MacGillivray was also largely responsible for the text of Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839). MacGillivray's own best-known work is A History of British Birds (1837-1852). Ayer/Zimmer, p. 409; McGill/Wood, p. 446. Provenance : William MacGillivray, as above John James Audubon John Woodhouse Audubon who has signed the title-page "J. W. Audubon" Maria Audubon (daughter of John Woodhouse Audubon son of John James Audubon , bookplate inside front cover Ruthven Deane, note is pasted to front free endpaper: "...This book, with other volumes, was bequeathed to me by Maria R. Audubon...who died...1925..." H. Bradley Martin bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 6 June 1989, lot 38).
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