TOWNSEND, JOHN KIRK. A Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River... with a Scientific Appendix, Philadelphia 1839, 8vo, publisher's cloth, extremities chipped, slight foxing, FIRST EDITION; Sporting Excursions in the Rocky Mountains, including a Journey to the Columbia River, London 1840, 2 vols., 12mo, half morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g., joints and extremities rubbed, First English edition of the Narrative, 2 etched frontispieces, DEAN SAGE'S COPY, Graff 4173-4; Sabin 96382-3; Wagner-Camp-Becker 79.1-79.2 -- THOMAS NUTTALL. A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada... The Land Birds [- Water Birds], Boston 1840-1834, 2 vols., original gray cloth, morocco lettering-pieces on spines, slightly rubbed, occasional mostly marginal foxing, Second edition of vol. 1, FIRST EDITION of vol. 2, half-titles, 114 wood engravings in the text, Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 470-71 ("one of the early landmarks in the history of American ornithology"), Nissen IVB 685, Sabin 56349-50; together 5 vols.Provenance:Townsend, Spotting Excursions: Dean Sage, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 10 April 1942, lot 438)Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (5)

TOWNSEND, JOHN KIRK. A Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River... with a Scientific Appendix, Philadelphia 1839, 8vo, publisher's cloth, extremities chipped, slight foxing, FIRST EDITION; Sporting Excursions in the Rocky Mountains, including a Journey to the Columbia River, London 1840, 2 vols., 12mo, half morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g., joints and extremities rubbed, First English edition of the Narrative, 2 etched frontispieces, DEAN SAGE'S COPY, Graff 4173-4; Sabin 96382-3; Wagner-Camp-Becker 79.1-79.2 -- THOMAS NUTTALL. A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada... The Land Birds [- Water Birds], Boston 1840-1834, 2 vols., original gray cloth, morocco lettering-pieces on spines, slightly rubbed, occasional mostly marginal foxing, Second edition of vol. 1, FIRST EDITION of vol. 2, half-titles, 114 wood engravings in the text, Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 470-71 ("one of the early landmarks in the history of American ornithology"), Nissen IVB 685, Sabin 56349-50; together 5 vols. Provenance: Townsend, Spotting Excursions: Dean Sage, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 10 April 1942, lot 438) Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (5)

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TOWNSEND, JOHN KIRK. A Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River... with a Scientific Appendix, Philadelphia 1839, 8vo, publisher's cloth, extremities chipped, slight foxing, FIRST EDITION; Sporting Excursions in the Rocky Mountains, including a Journey to the Columbia River, London 1840, 2 vols., 12mo, half morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g., joints and extremities rubbed, First English edition of the Narrative, 2 etched frontispieces, DEAN SAGE'S COPY, Graff 4173-4; Sabin 96382-3; Wagner-Camp-Becker 79.1-79.2 -- THOMAS NUTTALL. A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada... The Land Birds [- Water Birds], Boston 1840-1834, 2 vols., original gray cloth, morocco lettering-pieces on spines, slightly rubbed, occasional mostly marginal foxing, Second edition of vol. 1, FIRST EDITION of vol. 2, half-titles, 114 wood engravings in the text, Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 470-71 ("one of the early landmarks in the history of American ornithology"), Nissen IVB 685, Sabin 56349-50; together 5 vols.

Provenance:
Townsend, Spotting Excursions: Dean Sage, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 10 April 1942, lot 438)
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (5)