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Havell Double Elephants
086 Black Warrior
208 Esquimaux Curlew
358 Pine Grosbeak
123 Black & Yellow Warbler
266 Common Cormorant
341 Great Auk
128 Cat Bird
012 Baltimore Oriole
067 Red Winged Starling
238 Great Marbled Godwit
293 Large Billed Puffin
137 Yellow Breasted Chat
Octavo Birds of America
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: THE BIRDS OF AMERICA 7 VOLUME SET
Philadelphia & New York: 1839 - 1844 – First Octavo Edition
Five hundred (500) hand-colored lithographic plates bound in 7 volumes, complete with text. A superb copy tightly bound in contemporary boards. This is one of 1,199 first edition copies made, of which likely more than half have been broken for sale of the plates individually. This is the first of several editions published.
Individual Octavo Birds
042 Whip-Poor-Will
141 Ferruginous Mockingbird
181 American Goldfinch
221 Common Purple Crow
224 Raven
225 American Crow
226 Fish Crow
234 Canada Jay
256 Ivory-billed Woodpecker
285 Passenger Pigeon
355 Long-billed Curlew
357 Esquimaux Curlew
369 Great Blue Heron
420 American Anhinga
372 Blue Heron
374 Snowy Heron
375 American Flamingo
199 Pine Finch
216 Red-winged Starling
244 Yellow Breasted Chat
279 Band-tailed Pigeon
348 Marbled Godwit
357 Esquimaux Curlew
358 Glossy Ibis
415 Common Cormorant
429 Cayenne Tern
437 Roseate Tern
463 Large-billed Puffin
465 Great Auk
THE VIVIPAROUS QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA 3 volume set
New York: 1851-1854 (pub: V.G. Audubon, variant first octavo ed.) – approx. size: 10¼” x 6½”
155 superb hand-colored lithographic plates bound in 3 volumes, complete with text. Rebound in quarter leather with contemporary marbled boards. This is one of about 2,000 first edition copies produced and sold.
Single plates...
013 Musk Rat
021 Gray Fox
124 Mountain Brook Mink
Imperial Folio Edition – Approximate size: 22” x 28”
016 Canada Lynx
082 Red Texan Wolf
096 Cougar (male)
112 Californian Hare
054 Brown or Norway Rat
089 Say's Squirrel
121 Arctic Fox
030 Cotton Rat
032 Polar Hare
146 Nine-Banded Armadillo
056 American Bison (male)
091 Polar Bear
090 Common Mouse
Catesby
MARK CATESBY (1682-1749)
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CAROLINA, FLORIDA, and THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 37 hand-colored plates (of 220 published) struck from the copper plates. London: 1731-1743 – First Edition unless otherwise noted, and in pristine condition.
I-14 The Rice Bird
I-40 The Purple Grosbeak
I-69 The Kingfisher
I-81 The Wood Pelican
II-27 The Sole
II-42 The Small Rattlesnake
II-48 The Black Snake
II-61 The Laurel Tree of Carolina - After Georg Ehret
II-78 The Grey Fox
II-96 The Mangrove Grape Tree
I-38 The Red Bird (framed)
I-23 The Pigeon of Passage
I-24 The Turtle of Carolina
I-45 The Blue Linnet
I-48 The Baltimore Bird
I-49 The Bastard Baltimore
I-56 The Summer Red Bird
I-74 The Bill of the Flamingo
I-82 The White Curlew
I-97 The Summer Duck
II-32 The Land Crab (3rd ed. 1771)
II-41 The Rattle Snake (2nd ed. 1754)
I-99 The Blue Winged Teal
II-55 The Corn Snake
I-15 The Crested Jay (2nd ed. 1754)
I-76 The Blue Heron
I-16 The Largest White Bill'd Woodpecker
I-77 The Little White Heron
I-7 The Little Owl
I-46 The Chatterer
I-30 The Red-legg'd Thrush
I-4 The Swallow Tail'd Hawk
I-1 The White Head'd Eagle
I-89 The Laughing Gull
I-57 The Crested Titmouse
I-66 The Catbird
I-8 The Goat Sucker
JOHN GOULD (1804-1881)
A MONOGRAPH OF THE RAMPHASTIDAE OR THE FAMILY OF TOUCANS
Toco Toucan (1st ed. 1835 after Edward Lear)
Cayenne Aracari (2nd ed. 1855
Prince Maxmillian's Aracari (2nd ed. 1855
JOHN GOULD
THE BIRDS OF EUROPE and THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN
London: 1837 and 1873
Birds of Europe:
Great Auk (after Edward Lear)
Migratory Ouzel (two, one framed)
Birds of Britain:
Marsh Warbler
Butcher Bird
Dartford Warbler
Blackcap
Roseate Tern
American Bittern
Long-eared Owl
Rose-colored Pastor
Cormorant
Robin
Black-crowned Night Heron
Long-billed Curlew
Whimbrel
John Gould
A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROCHILIDAE OR THE FAMILY OF HUMMINGBIRDS London: 1849-1861 (with supplement published by Sotheran & Co.: 1887)
NOTE: Eleven of these remarkably executed and beautifully hand-colored lithographic prints are currently framed to full museum conservation standards, including new gold leaf frames, 8-ply rag mats, two accent color lines, new UF-3 glazing. The remaining ten are protected in their original mylar travel packaging.
Framed
Bourcieria Torquata Collared Inca Long orange & yellow trumpet flowers
Hylonympha Macrocerca Great Forked-tailed Humming-bird Pale pink vine flowers
Hypuroptila Buffoni Buffon’s Plumeleteer Orange cactus flowers
Threnetes Cervinicauda Fawn-tailed Barbed-throat Yellow flowers
Helianthea Osculans Buff-tailed Star-frontet Pink shallow trumpet flowers
Heliangelus Spencei Spence’s Sun Angel
Chrysuronia Eliciae Elicia’s Golden Tail A fern & yellow flowers
Sternoclyta Cyaneipectus Blue-breast Long orange & yellow flowers & buds
Hylocharis Sapphirinus Red-throated Sapphire A tiny nest with eggs
Phaethornis Augusti Salle’s Hermit Bright white bird tails, orange flowers
UNFRAMED
Heliomaster Constanti Constant’s Star-throat Iridescent technique for throats
Cephalepis Loddigesi Loddiges’ Plover-crest Swooping blue crests
Gouldia Popelairi Popelair’s Thorn-tail Iridescent technique for throats
Lophornis Pavoninus Roraima Coquette Amazing throat feathers, violet flowers
Spathura Underwoodi White-booted Racket-tail Iridescent technique for throats
Spathura Solstitialis Equador Racket-tail Amazing paddle tail feathers
Petasophora Delphinae Brown Violet-ear Iridescent throat technique, vine flowers
Avocettula Recurvirostris Fiery-tailed Avocet Small pale blue vine flowers
Glaucis Melantra Black-tailed Hermit Small yellow-orange stripped trumpets
Lesbia Gouldi Bogota Train-bearer Iridescent throats, scissor-tails
Thalurania Verticeps Green-crowned Wood-nymph
DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT
A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHASIANIDAE OR FAMILY OF THE PHEASANTS
New York: 1872
Four hand-colored lithographs (of 79 published) in pristine, like-new condition, full original color.
- Magnificent Impostor: Hybrid Pheasant
- Gallus Ferrugineus: Red Jungle-Fowl
- Euplocomus Nycthemerus: Silver Pheasant
- Acryllium Vulturina: Vulturine Guinea-Fowl
JOHN CASSIN
BIRDS OF CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, OREGON, BRITISH AND RUSSIAN AMERICA
Philadelphia: 1862 (reissued First edition)
50 hand-colored lithographs, reissue of 1856 first edition, bound in contemporary tooled gilt green Morocco, slightly rubbed on spines, complete and in very fine condition throughout.