Ornithology, Three Volumes:

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Ornithology, Three Volumes:Bigland's History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Philadelphia: Grigg, 1828, illustrated with hand-colored engravings as called for; later leatherette, water stains and foxing; Bishop's Birds, Etchings of Water-Fowl and Upland Game Birds, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1936, limited edition, number 586 of 1,000, illustrated with seventy-two etchings in aquatone; publishers' decorative boards, foxed, smudging to endleaves; and Elon Howard Eaton's Birds of New York, produced by the New York State Education Department, through the New York State Museum, Albany, 1910, with text illustrations and full-page color plates, green cloth publishers' binding. (3)
Estimate $200-400


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