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ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America. New York: Published by the author [1866-] 1869.
2 vols., large folio, 600 x 475mm. (23 5/8 x 18 3/4in.), twentieth-century red half morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, List of Plates leaf and Falco Candicans text leaves nearly detached at inner margins in vol. 2 (one with tiny repair), one-inch marginal tear to Plate 56 in vol. 2.
FIRST EDITION, 72 hand-colored lithographed plates after Elliot, Joseph Wolf and Edwin Sheppard (one), by Bowen & Co. and C.F. Tholey, 21 India proof wood engravings by W.J. Linton after Sheppard mounted in text, directions to binder slip at end of vol. 2.
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2 vols., large folio, 600 x 475mm. (23 5/8 x 18 3/4in.), twentieth-century red half morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, List of Plates leaf and Falco Candicans text leaves nearly detached at inner margins in vol. 2 (one with tiny repair), one-inch marginal tear to Plate 56 in vol. 2.
FIRST EDITION, 72 hand-colored lithographed plates after Elliot, Joseph Wolf and Edwin Sheppard (one), by Bowen & Co. and C.F. Tholey, 21 India proof wood engravings by W.J. Linton after Sheppard mounted in text, directions to binder slip at end of vol. 2.
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