first edition
1862 · Philadelphia
by CASSIN, John
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1862. Full Description:
CASSIN, John. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology...1853 to 1855. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862.
Second edition (with the same plates as the first edition). Large octavo (10 1/2 x 7 inches; 267 x 180 mm). viii, 298, [2, ads] pp. Fifty hand-colored lithographed plates, including frontispiece, after George G. White by Wm. E. Hitchcock, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen. Each plate with tissue guards.
Publisher's original full brown morocco-grained cloth. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards ruled in blind with a large central device stamped in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Previous owner's pencil notes on front flyleaf. Overall, a very good, clean copy, the plates in excellent condition.
Originally issued in ten parts between 1853 and 1855, this work was intended as a supplement to the octavo edition of Audubon’s Birds of America. Hitchcock, who transferred White’s drawings to stone, and Bowen, who printed and colored them, had both worked extensively on that earlier work, as well as on the octavo edition of Audubon and Bachman's Quadrupeds of North America. Cassin was the first American ornithologist to use trinomials to designate geographical races.
“The work was intended by Cassin as a general revision of the ornithology of the United States, and he expresses the hope that he may be able to issue two additional volumes or series; however, no more than this one volume ever appeared“ (Anker). According to Ayer, three species are described as new in the first edition.
Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 124-125 (first edition). Copenhagen/Anker 92 (first edition). Fine Bird Books, p. 64 (first edition). McGill/Wood, p. 281. Nissen, IVB, 173 (first edition). Sabin 11369 (first edition).
HBS 69249.
$2,750. (Inventory #: 69249)
CASSIN, John. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology...1853 to 1855. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862.
Second edition (with the same plates as the first edition). Large octavo (10 1/2 x 7 inches; 267 x 180 mm). viii, 298, [2, ads] pp. Fifty hand-colored lithographed plates, including frontispiece, after George G. White by Wm. E. Hitchcock, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen. Each plate with tissue guards.
Publisher's original full brown morocco-grained cloth. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards ruled in blind with a large central device stamped in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Previous owner's pencil notes on front flyleaf. Overall, a very good, clean copy, the plates in excellent condition.
Originally issued in ten parts between 1853 and 1855, this work was intended as a supplement to the octavo edition of Audubon’s Birds of America. Hitchcock, who transferred White’s drawings to stone, and Bowen, who printed and colored them, had both worked extensively on that earlier work, as well as on the octavo edition of Audubon and Bachman's Quadrupeds of North America. Cassin was the first American ornithologist to use trinomials to designate geographical races.
“The work was intended by Cassin as a general revision of the ornithology of the United States, and he expresses the hope that he may be able to issue two additional volumes or series; however, no more than this one volume ever appeared“ (Anker). According to Ayer, three species are described as new in the first edition.
Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 124-125 (first edition). Copenhagen/Anker 92 (first edition). Fine Bird Books, p. 64 (first edition). McGill/Wood, p. 281. Nissen, IVB, 173 (first edition). Sabin 11369 (first edition).
HBS 69249.
$2,750. (Inventory #: 69249)
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