Description:
Jasper, Theodore, illustrator (1814-1897) Studer's Popular Ornithology. The Birds of North America. [and] Ornithology; or the Science of Birds. Columbus, Ohio: Studer, 1878.
Two large folio volumes, the first illustrated with 119 colored plates of birds, the second with forty-one monochrome lithographs, bound in full morocco, with large gilt-stamped tool of nesting humming birds on all four covers, within a blind stamped geometric border, a.e.g., carefully rebacked, leather dry on the boards, chipped with loss; volume one with water stains throughout, 14 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (2)
Estimate $500-700
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