American Ornithology Or The Natural History Of The Birds Of The United States American

by Alexander Wilson Charles Lucien Bonaparte

$6,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel Augustus Mitchell, I: 1808; 1810; II: 1825; 1828; 1828. Vols. I and II of nine volumes. Folio 350 x 265 mm ; Vols. I, II, and III of four volumes. Folio 375 x 290 mm . iv ie., vi , 158; v-xii, 13-167, 1 pp. Each volume with 9 numbered hand-coloured plates. FIRST EDITIONS. I. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards, gilt spine; some wear to extremities, offsetting from

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