American Ornithology


by
Alexander Wilson & Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Chatto & Windus
1876

This Medium Quarto edition of American Ornithology is perhaps the finest of the smaller editions. Printed on heavy woven stock with fine hand coloring and gum arabic highlights, this edition of American Ornithology is an improvement over the 1932 Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot octavo edition printed in London. The primary advantage of this edition is the larger sheet size, easily accomodating the 5-3/8" x 8-7/8" plate with page dimensions of 8-5/8" x 11-1/8" and providing ample margins for framing. This compares favorably with the crowded 5" x 8-1/16" octavo edition page size which barely (and sometimes not completely) accomodates the full plate. The Chatto & Windus edition also shares the distinction of being the only edition besides the 1871 Porter & Coates 'Philadelphia Edition' to contain all 103 plates by Wilson and Bonaparte, and the only combined edition to contain metal-plate engraved images of all 103 plates (the Bonaparte plates in the Philadelphia edition are hand-colored stone lithographs). The 1832 edition contains only 97 of the total 103 images, Bonaparte's final volume not being published at the time. This was also the final hand-colored edition of Wilson & Bonaparte's work. Later editions all utilize the inferior chromolithographic techniqes, including one 'Chatto & Windus' edition bearing the same title page imprint as the present edition.

Hand Colored* Plates, with gum arabic highlights
8-5/8" x 11-1/16"

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Plate Picture
Price
#45
Sharp-shinned Hawk, Redstart, Yellow Rump

$110

 

#46
Slate-coloured Hawk, Ground Dove

$125

 
#47
Snipe, Quail (or Partridge)

$125

 

#48
Rail, Woodcock

$150

 

 
#51
Long-eared Owl, Marsh Hawk, Swallow-tailed Hawk

$125

 
#52
Red-tailed Hawk, American Buzzard, Ash-coloured Hawk

$150

 
#54
Broad-winged Hawk, Chuck-Wills Widow, Cape May Warbler, Black Capped Warbler (female)

$125

 

#55
Ring-tailed Eagle, Sea Eagle

$150

 
#56
Esquimaux Curlew, Red-backed Snipe, Semipalmated Snipe, Marbled Godwit

$100

 
#57
Turnstone, Ash-coloured Sandpiper , The Purre, Black-bellied Plover, Red-breasted Sandpiper

$100

 
#58
Red-breasted Snipe, Long-legged Avocet, Solitary Sandpiper, Yellow-shanks Snipe, Tell-tale Snipe

$100

 
#59
Spotted Sandpiper, Bartram's Sandpiper, Ring Plover, Sanderling Plover, Golden Plover Killdeer Plover

$100

 

#62
Virginian Rail, Clapper Rail, Blue Crane, Little Egret

$200

 

#63
Roseate Spoonbill, American Avocet, Ruddy Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper

$300

 

#64
Louisiana Heron, Pied Oystercatcher, Hooping Crane, Long-billed Curlew

$250

 

#67
Black or Surf Duck, Buffel-Headed Duck (m&f), Canada Goose, Tufted Duck, Golden-eye, Shoveller

$200

 

#69
Hooded Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Blue Bill (or Scaup Duck), American Widgeon, Snow Goose (female), Pied Duck

$200

 

#73
Common Coot, Purple Gallinule, Gray Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Wilson's Plover

$125

 

#75
Turkey Buzzard, Black Vulture, Raven

$125

 

 

 

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*NOTE: There is also an inferior edition of this title and same publisher with
5" x 9" Chromolithographic plates, also 1876. Our plates are all
from the larger & more desirable hand-colored edition.

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