Red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt particular of a bird to covers and spine. Gilt edges. Five raised bands. Wear to top of spine. Film to spine (see image). Tear to page 245 and 247 not affecting text. Bookplate laid on marbled paper to front fly. No other previous owner's names or other markings. 10.25 x 12.65 inches (25.5 x 32.3 cm). View More...
Recent blue cloth and endpapers. Gilt title to front cover and spine. This work includes a Prospectus [1872] pp. 1-8 and then continues with Part I. [1872] pp. 1-32, Part II. [1873] pp. 33-64, and Part III. [1874] pp. 65-88. No further parts of this work were published. Two hand-colored plates as well as a double in black/white. Title page and Prospectus page backed with no loss to text, as bottom of pages were damaged (see image). Previous owner's name to front endpaper and previous owner's partially erased inscription in pencil to title page. Moderate tape residue throughout. Tears to sides ... View More...
String tied lacking original paper wraps. Nineteen colored plates some of which are double paged. No previous owners' names or other markings detractions. 6.25 x 9.75 in View More...
Rebound with original wraps bound in. Blue cloth boards with title to front cover and spine. Signature to title page. Two pages advertising other works from the author in rear. No other previous owner's names or other markings. View More...
A virgin copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Blue leather boards with gilt particulars, Smyth sewn binding, moire endpapers, silk ribbon, all edges gilt, three raised bands. View More...
Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Nineteen tipped-in wood engravings. Some pages uncut. Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Slight staining to boards (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. 8 x 10.25 in View More...
Green cloth with gilt title on spine and front cover. Twenty-three colored plates. Previous owner's name neatly to front endpaper dated 1931, along with a previous owner's stamp to front pastedown. Occasional foxing, as well as to foredge. Regardless still a nice clean copy. 7.25 x 10.5 in View More...
Green cloth with gilt particulars to cover and spine. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown dated 1921. Illustrations throughout. Occasional thumbing. An otherwise clean tight copy without any other markings. 5.75 x 7.75 in First Edition. View More...
Paper pictorial wraps. Text in Creole. Wear to corners and head/ tail of spine (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. 8.5 x 11 in First Edition. View More...
Red cloth with gilt particulars to front cover and spine. Complete with eight colored plates and tissue guards. All edges gilt. Ex-library defaced by Macalester College with the usual library stamps throughout and pastedowns to rear not affecting plates. Wear to tail of spine and edges of boards (see image). Previous owner's pastedown to front. Multiple pages of advertisements to rear. Plates clean and bright. 5.25 x 7.25 in View More...
Four volumes. Red pebbled cloth with gilt particulars to spine. Volume I is description (in Dutch) of assorted species of bird, while Volumes II-IV are entirely hand-colored lithographs of birds (vol. II, 118 plates; vol III, 118 plates; vol. IV 126 plates. Bookplate of H. Bradley Martin to front pastedown of all volumes. Marbled endpapers. Volumes I and II have indentations from previous banding; Volume II has blotchy fading to spine; Volume III and IV have strips of sunning to top of front board (see image); Volume IV has staining to spine. All 362 hand-colored plates present. Overall 5.5 x ... View More...
Scarce edition of this oddity. Clean text with no previous owners' names. Crease mark to front cover. Staining to fore-edge and back cover (see image). 6.25 x 9 in View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Company : 1856
Seller ID: 4923
Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Plate 41 View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Company : 1856
Seller ID: 4895
Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Company : 1856
Seller ID: 4892
Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America, 9. View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Company : 1856
Seller ID: 4896
Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Company : 1856
Seller ID: 4898
Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. First Edition. View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Company : 1856
Seller ID: 4916
Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Company : 1856
Seller ID: 4893
Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America, plt 10. View More...