BOOK
Title:
Museum Carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves: Coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, suas et sumtbus generossissimi possessoris
Creators:
Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820 | Carlsson, Johan Gustaf von, 1743-1801
Publication:
Typographia Regia, Holmiae, 1786-1789.
Notes:
Each plate followed by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
Extent:
4 pts. in 2 v., 100 leaves of plates : ill. (col.) ; folio.
BOOK
Title:
Iconographie des pigeons non figurés par Mme Knip (Mlle Pauline Decourcelles) dans les deux volumes de MM. Temminck et Florent Prévost ... Ouvrage servant d'illustration a son Histoire naturelle des pigeons
Creator:
Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857
Publication:
P. Bertrand, Paris, 1857.
Notes:
Unbound sheets with paper wrapper, in case.
Extent:
1 v. : 55 col. plates ; 58 cm. x 39 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Land birds of America
Creators:
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887- | Amadon, Dean | Porter, Eliot, 1901-
Publication:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, New York, [1953]
Extent:
240 p. : illus. (part col.) ; 32 cm.
BOOK
Title:
American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson: with figures drawn, engraved, and coloured, from nature
Creators:
Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846 | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Rider, A.
Publication:
Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, sold by Anthony Finley ..., William Brown, printer, Philadelphia, 1825-1828.
Notes:
Vols. 2 & 3 have imprint: Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828. All three volumes were printed by William Brown. Plates signed: drawn from nature by Titian R. Peale and A. Rider; engraved by Alexander Lawson. This set apparently issued without the v. 4 that was published in Philadelphia by Carey & Lea. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
3 v., 21 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 40 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A flock of beautiful birds: the ornithological collection of Louise Elkins Sinkler
Creators:
Wolf, Edwin, 1911- | Sinkler, Louise E. | Library Company of Philadelphia
Publication:
Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1977.
Call #:
026 PAM. NO.152 C.2
Extent:
43 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A flock of beautiful birds: the ornithological collection of Louise Elkins Sinkler
Creators:
Wolf, Edwin, 1911- | Sinkler, Louise E. | Library Company of Philadelphia
Publication:
Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1977.
Call #:
026 PAM. NO.152 C.1
Extent:
43 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Museum Carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves: coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, suas et sumtibus generossissimi possessoris
Creators:
Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820 | Carlsson, Johan Gustaf von, 1743-1801
Publication:
Typographia regia, Holmiae, 1786-1789.
Notes:
Each plate is followed by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
Extent:
4 pt. in 1 v., 100 leaves of plates : ill. (col.) ; 36 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The birds of America: reproduced in color for the first time from the collection at the New-York Historical Society
Creators:
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Davidson, Marshall B. | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Publication:
American Heritage Pub. Co.; distributed to booksellers by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, New York, 1966.
Notes:
M. B. Davidson edited the descriptive captions, which include many quotations from Audubon's Ornithological biography.
Call #:
598.2 Au2n.d v.1, 2
Extent:
2 v. illus. (part col.) facsim., 431 col. plates (part fold.) ports. (1 col.) 35 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The birds of America
Creators:
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Vogt, William, 1902-
Publication:
Macmillan, New York, 1941, [c1937]
Notes:
The colored plates are preceded by a reproduction of the t.-p. of one of the original portfolios dated 1827-1830, not included in the paging. "Published November, 1937. Reprinted 1941. "The 435 plates in this volume were originally published by Audubon, in London, during the years 1827-1838 ... a set believed to be the finest in uncut state in America ... has ... been followed in making the present reproductions."
Extent:
xxvi p. : front. (port.), 435 col. plates ; folio.
BOOK
Title:
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique septentrionale
Creator:
Vieillot, L. P. (Louis Pierre), 1748-1831
Publication:
Paris, 1807.
Extent:
2 v. : 131 pl. ; folio.
BOOK
Title:
Ornithologia methodice digesta, atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornata
Creators:
Manetti, Saverio, 1723-1785 | Lorenzi, Lorenzo. | Vanni, Violante.
Publication:
In Aedibus Mouchianis, Florentiae, 1767-1776.
Notes:
Dedication signed: Saverio Manetti, Lorenzo Lorenzi, Violante Vanni. Added t. p.: Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e minate al naturale. Engraved title pages. Incomplete: APS owns Vol. 1-3, and 5, vol.4 is wanting. Parallel columns of text in Italian and Latin.
Call #:
598.2 M31 v.1-3, 5
Extent:
5 v. : col. ill. ; 47 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The birds of America: from original drawings
Creators:
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859 | Havell, Robert, 1793-1878
Publication:
Pub. by the author, London, 1827-38.
Notes:
Engraved title-page. Imprint dates: v. 1, 1827-30; v. 2, 1831-34; v. 3, 1834-35; v. 4, 1835-38, June 20. Plate LXIV drawn from nature by Lucy Audubon. Plates I-II, VI-VII engraved by W.H. Lizars, retouched by R. Havell, junr.; pl VIII-IX engraved by W.H. Lizars; pl. III-V, CI-CV, CVIII, CX engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell, junr.; pl. X-C, CVI-CVII, CIX, CXII-CCCCXXXV engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell. Plates II, VII dated 1829; pl. CVI-CX, CXII-CVX dated 1831; pl. CXXXI-CXL, CXLIII-CLV dated 1832; pl. CLVI-CLXXVII, CLXXIX-CLXXXII, CLXXXIV-CLXXXV dated 1833; pl. CLXXXVI-CXCVII, CXCIX, CCII-CCXXXV dated 1834; pl. CCXXXVI-CCLXXXV, CCLXXXVII, CCLXXXIX-CCXC dated 1835; pl. CCLXXXVI, CCLXXXVIII, CCXCI-CCCL dated 1836; pl. CCCLI-CCCC dated 1837; pl. CCCCI-CCCCXXXV dated 1838. Plate CCLX marked "CCXL". Originally issued in 87 parts. "The plates were published without any text, to avoid the necessity of furnishing copies gratis to the public libraries in England, agreeably to the law of copyright."--Sabin, A dictionary of books relating to America, v. 1, p. 315. Text to accompany the plates was published in 5 vols., rl. 8vo., Edinburgh, 1831-39, under title "Ornithological biography, or, An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America ..." Later editions, of text and plates combined, with alterations, were published in 7 and 8 vols., rl. 8vo., under title "The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories". cf. Minutes and Donation Book under given date.
Extent:
4 v. in 5 : 435 pl. ; folio.
BOOK
Title:
Oiseaux dorés ou à reflets métaliques
Creators:
Audebert, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1759-1800 | Vieillot, L. P. (Louis Pierre), 1748-1831
Publication:
Desray, Paris, an 11 = 1802.
Notes:
Each volume has also individual t.-p. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Extent:
2 v., [190] leaves of plates (some double) : chiefly col. ill. ; 34 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Album of Abyssinian birds and mammals
Creators:
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 | Field Museum of Natural History
Publication:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1930.
Notes:
Caption title. Descriptive letterpress on verso of each plate. Issued in portfolio. Special publication of Field Museum of natural history, Chicago. Loose in portfolio, within case.
Extent:
2 p. l., 32 col pl. ; 30 1/2 x 26 cm.
BOOK
Creators:
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 | Hoffmann, Ralph, b. 1870
Publication:
Ginn & Company, Boston, 1901.
Extent:
4 ., 40 p. : 20 plates (incl. front.) ; 30 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The book of birds: five centuries of bird illustration
Creator:
Lysaght, A. M. (Averil M.)
Publication:
Phaidon, London, 1975.
Notes:
Distributed in the United States of America by Praeger, New York, N.Y. Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [201]-203.
Extent:
208 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 38 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Notizie sulla moltiplicazione in Firenze negli anni 1837, 1838, 1839 dell'uccello Americano Paroaria cucullata chiamato volgarmente Cardinale lette in Pisa alla sezione di zoologia della prima reunione degli scienziati italiani il 7 ottobre 1839
Creator:
Passerini, Carlo, 1793-1858
Publication:
Tipografia Pezzati, Firenze, 1841.
Extent:
8 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Birds of the eastern forest. 1
Creators:
Lansdowne, J. Fenwick (James Fenwick), 1937- | Livingston, John A.
Publication:
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1968.
Notes:
Bibliography: p.227-228.
Extent:
231 p. : 104 plates (52 col.) ; 34 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
By the book: Audubon and the tradition of ornithological illustration
Parent:
Huntington Library quarterly, v.59, nos.2 & 3
Creator:
Partridge, Linda Dugan.
Publication:
San Marino, Cal, c1998]
Call #:
027.1 H39q, v.59, nos.2
Extent:
p. 269-301. : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Birds of the northern forest
Creators:
Lansdowne, J. Fenwick (James Fenwick), 1937- | Livingston, John A.
Publication:
Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, Boston, Cambridge, Mass, 1966.
Notes:
Paintings by J.F. Lansdowne; text by John A. Livingston. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 243-244.
Extent:
247 p. : 112 plates (56 col.) ; 34 cm.