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ISBN 10: 1313217034ISBN 13: 9781313217033
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1018744088ISBN 13: 9781018744087
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ISBN 10: 1313254177ISBN 13: 9781313254175
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014555485ISBN 13: 9781014555489
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014090857ISBN 13: 9781014090850
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Published by Wentworth Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1360231870ISBN 13: 9781360231877
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Published by Pranava Books, 2020
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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Language: ger Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1825 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. THERE MIGHT BE DELAY THAN THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE DUE TO COVID-19. Pages: 662 Pages: 662.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013427017ISBN 13: 9781013427015
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 1021793612ISBN 13: 9781021793614
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ISBN 10: 1019751878ISBN 13: 9781019751879
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Published by WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 1371888116ISBN 13: 9781371888114
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Published by Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1884
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
Two works in five volumes. (10 3/4 x 8 inches). [Land Birds:] Vol. I - xxviii, 596, vi; Vol. II - vi, 590, vi; Vol. III - vi, 560, xxviii. 64 hand-finished, colour-printed lithographs and 593 woodcut illustrations. The Deluxe Edition with 36 added hand-coloured lithographic plates after Ridgway. [Water Birds:] Vol. I - xii, 537; Vol. II - vi, 552. 493 illustrations (including 332 finely hand-coloured). Publisher's uniform green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt Provenance: H.O. Havemeyer, Jr. Rare deluxe editions, coloured and with additional illustrations, of Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's classics of American ornithology. "This work contains a description of the birds of North America north of Mexico, including Greenland and Alaska. The focus of this work is an account of the life history of the species, to which is added information about the geographical distribution of the birds and a brief description of the eggs and the individual species. Baird and Ridgway supplied the descriptive parts of the work, while Dr. Brewer dealt with the habits of the birds" (Anker). Little Brown & Co. advertisements confirm that their Land Birds was issued with 64 plates (uncolored at $10 per volume, or coloured at $20 per volume). However, a letter from the librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia published in the October 1902 issue of The Auk reveals the existence of the present deluxe issue of the Land Birds, with additional hand-coloured plates after Ridgway: "While the existence of an edition of this work with these plates may be known to many ornithologists, yet there is no printed record of such, as far as the present writer is aware. No mention of these plates is made in Coues's 'Bibliography' nor in the several reviews of the 'Land Birds' to which I have had access. Dr. C. W. Richmond informs me that Mr. Ridgway has never seen a copy of the work with these plates although he has some loose plates in his possession" (letter from William J. Fox published in The Auk, October 1902). Neither Nissen, Anker, Zimmer nor Sitwell mention this deluxe issue. A contemporary advertisement (in an 1882 edition of The Scientist's International Directory), however, reveals that this deluxe edition with extra illustrations "beautifully colored by hand" was available for $75 in cloth (as here) or $95 in full morocco. Little Brown & Co. advertisements confirm that their Water Birds was published in both uncolored ($10 per volume) and colored ($30 per volume) issues, describing the latter: "In the hand colored edition of the Water Birds the illustrations of heads are most exquisitely executed in water colors from patterns prepared by Mr. Ridgway." The in-text illustrations are indeed exceptionally well hand-coloured, with the eyes of the birds finished with gum arabic. (See the advertisement in the 31 May 1884 issue of The Literary World, advertising volume one as just completed and projecting volume two to be published in September). We have only once before encountered a colored issue (the Bradley Martin copy), and considering the cost and labor involved, must have been done in a very limited number. "One of the great works on North American ornithology and for many years a standard reference . the first major work on North American birds to supersede Audubon's Ornithological Biography of 1831-39 as a comprehensive general source" (Ellis Collection). Nissen 63 and 64; Anker 25; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books (1990), page 75; Ellis Collection 137 and 140; Zimmer, pp. 34-35; William J. Fox, "The Extra-Illustrated Edition of ' Baird, Brewer and Ridgeway," The Auk, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Oct., 1902), pp. 418-419.