Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America

by John Cassin

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Second edition. 50 hand-colored lithographed plates, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia eighteen after George G. White, thirty-two drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock . viii, 298, 2 pp. Large 8vo. Publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. Bookplates on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Anker 92; Zimmer, p.124; Lada-Mocarski 144; Cowan p.110; Nissen Birds 173; Fine Bird Books 64; Bennett, p.21. Item

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