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ULAN Press, 2000?. Paperback. Very Good. 663 pages reprint in Fine condition large trade Paperback

Ulan Press, 2012-10-11. Paperback. Used: Good.

Ulan Press, 2012-10-11. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Edinburgh & London: Printed by Neill & Co. (Edinburgh) for Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh) and R. Havell Jun., and Longman, Rees, Brown and Green (London), and various others, 1835. Vols 1-3 (of 5), large 8vo. (9 3/4 x 6 inches). Half-titles. Numerous woodcut text illustrations. Prospectus for the Birds of America bound into rear of vol. 1. Bound to style in half calf and period cloth covered boards, spines ruled in blind, black morocco lettering pieces. First edition of the first three volumes of the separately-issued text for the elephant folio Birds of America, complete with the rare Prospectus. The genesis of the present work is interesting: as early as November 1826, Audubon had begun thinking about the text which should accompany his engraved illustrations of birds. He noted in his journal: "I shall publish the letterpress in a separate book, at the same time with the illustrations and shall accompany the descriptions of the birds with many anecdotes and accounts of localities connected with… Read More

Edinburgh, 1831-1839.. Five volumes. A few in-text illustrations. Half title in each volume. Large, thick octavos. Modern buckram, printed paper labels. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light foxing, primarily to first and last few leaves. Tear in half title of second volume, repaired with tape. Very good. This is Audubon's text, designed to accompany the elephant folio edition of THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, giving sketches of the birds described therein. Of great interest are Audubon's accounts of his travels and adventures in the American hinterland, scattered through the volumes as part of the bird descriptions and as separate anecdotes. Includes accounts of his experiences in the Florida Keys, along the Mississippi, and in Louisiana and Kentucky in the 1820s and '30s. Audubon published the text separately from the double elephant folio plates in order to avoid a stricture of the British Copyright Act of 1709 which would have required him to deposit a… Read More

Adam Black, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. First edition of the separately-issued text for the elephant folio Birds of America. Edinburgh & London: Printed by Neill & Co. (Edinburgh) for Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh) and R. Havell Jun., and Longman, Rees, Brown and Green (London), and various others, 1831-1834-1835-1838-"1849" [i.e.1839]. 5 volumes, large 8vo. (10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches). Complete in five volumes. Vol I, Introductory Address and Table of Contents, xxiv, pp,506, index 507-512. Under the Special Patronage of Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Adelaide, Prospectus, Contents of Vol I of the Birds of America, Extracts from Reviews, Names of Subscribers. Vol II, 1834, Introduction, Table of Contents, XXXII(with a small hole on page 579, last page of table of contents, before the last paragraph, not affecting text), Subscribers to "The Birds of America", Index, pp.588. Vol III, 1635, Introduction, Table of Contents, XVI, Subscribers, Index, pp.638. Vol IV,… Read More