viii, [4], 298 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 50 lithographs printed and colored by J.T. Bowen (some finished by hand), after drawings by George G. White and drawings on stone by William E Hitchcock. 5 Additional color lithographs by Rosenthal Lithographic Press after designs by H.L. Stevens. 26.4x17.8 cm (10½x7"), gilt-bordered maroon crushed morocco, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, feather-marbled endpapers. Second edition. First published in 10 fascicules from 1853-56. John Cassin (1813-69), a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, undertook this work as a general revision of ornithology of the United States following Audubon. In the preface Cassin looks back to the publication of Alexander Wilson's 1808-14 American Ornithology and to John James Audubon's 1827-38 Birds of America. "Since the time of the publication of the works of our predecessors in American Ornithology, the additions of species and of information in that department of our Zoology have been very large and being for much the greater part within our reach we have been induced to undertake the present work. It is to be regarded in some measure as an addition to the works of former authors in American Ornithology, but at the same time complete in itself." A handsome copy, finely bound.
viii, [4], 298 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 50 lithographs printed and colored by J.T. Bowen (some finished by hand), after drawings by George G. White and drawings on stone by William E Hitchcock. 5 Additional color lithographs by Rosenthal Lithographic Press after designs by H.L. Stevens. 26.4x17.8 cm (10½x7"), gilt-bordered maroon crushed morocco, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, feather-marbled endpapers. Second edition. First published in 10 fascicules from 1853-56. John Cassin (1813-69), a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, undertook this work as a general revision of ornithology of the United States following Audubon. In the preface Cassin looks back to the publication of Alexander Wilson's 1808-14 American Ornithology and to John James Audubon's 1827-38 Birds of America. "Since the time of the publication of the works of our predecessors in American Ornithology, the additions of species and of information in that department of our Zoology have been very large and being for much the greater part within our reach we have been induced to undertake the present work. It is to be regarded in some measure as an addition to the works of former authors in American Ornithology, but at the same time complete in itself." A handsome copy, finely bound.
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