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Auction archive: Lot number 144

Wilson's American Ornithology with Notes by Jardine: To Which Is Added a Synopsis of American Birds, Including Those Described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$200
Auction archive: Lot number 144

Wilson's American Ornithology with Notes by Jardine: To Which Is Added a Synopsis of American Birds, Including Those Described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$200
Beschreibung:

(Wilson, Alexander) Wilson's American Ornithology with Notes by Jardine: To Which Is Added a Synopsis of American Birds, Including Those Described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson Author: Brewer, T.M. Provenance: From the collection of Shawn Donnille Place Published: New York Publisher: H.S. Samuels Date Published: 1852 Description: viii, 746 pp. Extra chromolithograph title page. Illustrated throughout with chromolithographed plates, some finished by hand. (8vo) 22.5x14 cm (9x5½"), quarter-morocco and cloth rebacked with modern buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814–1880) was an American ornithologist and publisher. He was co-author of the 1874 3-volume A History of North American Birds. Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) published his landmark text American Ornithology by subscription in 9 volumes from 1808-1814. Condition: Light rubbing and wear; light foxing; very good. Item#: 366320 Headline: T.M. Brewer's edition of Wilson's American Ornithology

Auction archive: Lot number 144
Auction:
Datum:
16 Nov 2023
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

(Wilson, Alexander) Wilson's American Ornithology with Notes by Jardine: To Which Is Added a Synopsis of American Birds, Including Those Described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson Author: Brewer, T.M. Provenance: From the collection of Shawn Donnille Place Published: New York Publisher: H.S. Samuels Date Published: 1852 Description: viii, 746 pp. Extra chromolithograph title page. Illustrated throughout with chromolithographed plates, some finished by hand. (8vo) 22.5x14 cm (9x5½"), quarter-morocco and cloth rebacked with modern buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814–1880) was an American ornithologist and publisher. He was co-author of the 1874 3-volume A History of North American Birds. Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) published his landmark text American Ornithology by subscription in 9 volumes from 1808-1814. Condition: Light rubbing and wear; light foxing; very good. Item#: 366320 Headline: T.M. Brewer's edition of Wilson's American Ornithology

Auction archive: Lot number 144
Auction:
Datum:
16 Nov 2023
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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