America. – Ornithology. Wilson, Alexander; Bonaparte, Charles Lucian. American Ornithology. Or the History of the Birds of the United States. Edited by Robert Jameson. 1st printing. 4 volumes complete but without colored bird engravings. Edinburgh, London, printed for Constable and Co.; and Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1831. 14,5x9 cm. Hardcover. Original full leather but damaged: most of the covers are lose and 3 covers are missing. Leather strongly rubbed. Nice, colorful book end papers. Inside with some browning and foxing around the engraved portrait and title engravings. Otherwise pages predominantly clean. There are no colored bird engravings in these volumes!

Vol. I: Frontispiece – Portrait engraving of Alexander Wilson, engraved title with and eagle. XCVI, Notice and Memoir of Alexander Wilson, 271 p., 1 sheet. Content: Order I, Accipitres, Linnaeus; Order II, Passeres, Linnaeus.
Vol. II: Engraved title with a Hawk. IX, 334 p. Content: Order II continued, Passeres, Linnaeus; Order III, Gallinae, Linneaus.
Vol. III: Engraved title with a few Scarlet Ibis. VIII, 320 p. Content: Order IV, Gallinae, Linnaeus; Order V, anseres, Linnaeus; Synonyms on Names given to the different Birds, in Wilsons’s Am. Ornith., by Travellers and Naturalists.
Vol. IV: Engraved title with two turkeys. X, 362 p. Content: Bonapartes American Ornithology, Order I, Accipitres, Linnaeus, Order II, Passeres, Linnaeus. Synonyms on Names given to the different birds in Bonapartes Am. Orn. by Travellers and Naturalists.

• Kategorie: Botanik und Zoologie
• Schlagwörter: 19. Jahrhundert · Amerika, USA · Englische Literatur und Sprache · Ornithologie, Vogelkunde · Vögel, Vogelschutz
• Erstausgabe
• Bestellnummer: 10020BB

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