Brasilia: Eletronorte. Filled with color drawings of 500 Brazilian birds. 251pp., folio, pictorial boards; covers slightly bowed, lacks accompanying CD. Brasilia: Eletronorte, no date, circa 2000. A very good copy, internally clean. More

Mazenod, 1986. 435 full page color plates, many illustrations in black & white. Very thick elephant folio, cream cloth, d.w., pictorial board slipcase. Paris: Mazenod, (1986). Fine. More

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6 1/4" x 9 7/8" Hand colored lithograph depicting two American Bitterns - a male and a female. From the First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints. More

Japan: Abbeville Press, 1985. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 39.5" x 26.5". Beautiful print of three orioles from second facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. Published in conjunction with the Audubon Society, the edition commemorates the two hundredth birthday of John James Audubon. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an..... More

Amsterdam: 1971. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 26.5" x 39.5". Beautiful print of cuckoos from first facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. The model for these images was an original set of Havell engravings, provided by Teyler's Museum in Haarlem, Holland. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist..... More

Boston: Little Brown, 1884. 2 volumes. With hundreds of woodcut text illustrations, some hand-colored. 537 pages and 562 pages. Thick 4to, original gilt-lettered green cloth, t.e.g.; two sections of front edge of Volume I heavily abraded, only slightly effecting the margins of a few pages, hinges of volume II just starting. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1884. First Edition. Internally near fine, a very good set. Baird, "described what he saw and in such fashion that no subsequent observer had..... More

Paris: Langlois and Rousseau. Stipple engraving. 23 x 17 inches. Proof before letters. Shows some light foxing otherwise in very good condition. A gorgeous depiction of a yellow-throated toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus), a near threatened species of bird in the family Ramphastidae, the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. It is found from Honduras south into northern South America and beyond to Peru. Plate 4 from "Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus"..... More

New York: Putnam, 1927. With 60 illustrations from photographs by the author. xiii, 248 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt title on front cover. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. First edition. Spine ends a bit soft, still about near fine, lacking the dust wrapper. More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1926. Illustrated with 64 plates, some in color. 2 volumes. 4to, green cloth with gilt medallion on cover, chipped d.w. Garden City: Doubleday, 1926. First Trade Edition. Some spotting to covers, still a very good copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A study of living pheasants in various parts of Asia & the East Indies. More

Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. With color and b/w illustrations throughout. 270 pages. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, (1972). First printing. A very good(-) copy -- light foxing and spotting to outer edges, minor dampstaining and fading to lower edge of front cloth, sticker residue to front pastedown; in a very good(-) dust wrapper, edgeworn with wear to head and rear panel corner. More

New York: Random House, 1993. Essays by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., et al. Color frontispiece and numerous full-page color plates throughout. 382 pages. Thick folio, green cloth, d.w. New York: Villard Books, Random House, (1993). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904. 23 volumes. Frontispiece portrait, numerous illustrations in color and black and white on Japan vellum with tissue guards. Short 8vos, beautifully bound in 3/4 green morocco with elaborate gilt-decorated floral designs on spine, top edges gilt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904-1923. Fine. The Riverby edition. Signed by Burroughs on the title page of volume 1. Volumes 18-23 are similarly bound, but in light brown leather. Volume 18 is additionally inscribed by Burroughs on the flyleaf... More

Nuremburg: Johann Seligmann, 1753. Bird print. Etching with original hand coloring. Page measures 17" x 10", image measures 12" x 8 7/8". Beautiful and unusual life sized beak of a flamingo set against a background of Gorgonian coral. Minor wear and aging to edges. Minor stain in lower left. Mark Catesby (1683-1749), born in England, was America's first naturalist/illustrator. He was the first to comprehensively illustrate natural history delineating the American flora and fauna. Johann Michael Seligmann (1720%u20131762) was a...... More