ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or Family of the Grouse. New York: published by the author, 1864-65. 5 parts in 4, large folio, original morocco-backed boards, broken, cloth folding box, some light spotting, occasional faint offsetting, marginal dampstains to a few text leaves and to plates 5 and 10, small marginal tears to the edges of plates 17 and 18, just touching the latter's image, corner of plate 6 bent, corner of plate 19 chipped, a few plates lightly creased at margins. 27 hand-colored lithographed plates by Bowen & Co. after Elliot (one after Joseph Wolf), plus 2 plates of eggs after William S. Morgan, title-page, list of subscribers, and other preliminary matter bound in at the end of part 4-5. Nissen/IVB 293; Fine Bird Books p. 74; Wood p. 331; Zimmer, p. 205. (4)

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ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or Family of the Grouse. New York: published by the author, 1864-65. 5 parts in 4, large folio, original morocco-backed boards, broken, cloth folding box, some light spotting, occasional faint offsetting, marginal dampstains to a few text leaves and to plates 5 and 10, small marginal tears to the edges of plates 17 and 18, just touching the latter's image, corner of plate 6 bent, corner of plate 19 chipped, a few plates lightly creased at margins. 27 hand-colored lithographed plates by Bowen & Co. after Elliot (one after Joseph Wolf), plus 2 plates of eggs after William S. Morgan, title-page, list of subscribers, and other preliminary matter bound in at the end of part 4-5. Nissen/IVB 293; Fine Bird Books p. 74; Wood p. 331; Zimmer, p. 205. (4)