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A History of North American Birds, Land Birds (Three Volumes) by Baird, S. F., T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway - 1874

by Baird, S. F., T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway

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A History of North American Birds, Land Birds (Three Volumes) by Baird, S. F., T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway - 1874

A History of North American Birds, Land Birds (Three Volumes)

by Baird, S. F., T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1874. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to. Three volumes in original brown cloth covers with gilt stamped lettering. Illustrated by 64 colored plates and 593 woodcuts. Pebbled cloth covers show scattered rubbing, and there is a little scattered wear along the edges. Very slightly ex-library with plates removed from front paste down, and inked numbers at bottom of preface page in Vol. I, and bottom of contents pages in II and III. Penciled completion of given and middle names from the initials of the authors on the title pages. All three volumes remains fairly tight and contents are otherwise generally clean. Due to weight and size, additional charges will apply for Priority and/or International shipping.

  • Bookseller Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps US (US)
  • Format/Binding Cloth - Hard Cover
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • Jacket Condition No Dust Jacket
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Little, Brown and Company
  • Place of Publication Boston
  • Date Published 1874
  • Size 4to

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A History of North American Birds: Land Birds; Volume III [volume three only]

by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgeway

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Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1905. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (if issued). Please note: this is a single volume from a three volume set] Small quarto, 10 1/8" tall, 560 + xxviii + plate pages with intertextual black and white and color plate illustration, gilt top fore-edge, gilt spine titles on blue cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, andrubbing at the corners, binding solid, paper clean light to moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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A History of North American Birds: Land Birds; Volume II [volume two only]

by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway

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Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1905. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (if issued). Please note: this is a single volume from a three-volume set] Small quarto, 10 1/8" tall, 590 + vi + plate pages with inter-textual black and white and color plate illustration, gilt top fore-edge, gilt spine titles on blue cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, rubbing at the corners, binding solid, paper clean light to moderately yellowed with a previous owner's penned signature on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.A History of North American Birds: Land Birds; Volume II [volume two only] S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgeway
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A History of North American Birds - Land Birds

A History of North American Birds - Land Birds

by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway

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Little, Brown & Co, 1874. Hardcover. Three hardcover volumes in good condition. Shelf wear, corners and edges rubbed. Starting at inner hinger of Volume III with closed tear to one page. Previous owner's name on ffep of each volume. Text clean and plates bright. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1905. Third Edition of a work first published in 1874. Three volumes with 64 color plates & 593 woodcuts. TEG. The present edition contains hand finished color frontispieces by Robert RIDGWAY in each volume. The color plates of heads are scattered throughout the text rather than at the end of each volume. Vol. I, 596 pp. Vol. II, 590 pp. Vol. III, 560 pp.
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A History of North American Birds

A History of North American Birds

by BAIRD, S.F., T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway

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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Three volumes. Illustrated by 64 plates and 593 woodcuts. Contemporary owner's name in each volume, a little spotting on the spines, corners a little rubbed, a handsome very good or better set.
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