41. BELCHER (SIR EDWARD). The Last of the Arctic Voyages. With Notes on the Natural History by Sir John Richardson, etc. Illustrated with charts, woodcuts and 36 colored plates. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1855

FIRST EDITION.

42. BELDING (LYMAN). Land Birds of the Pacific District. Royal 8vo, half brown morocco, gilt top, uncut.

San Francisco, 1890

Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences.

43. BENDIRE (CHARLES). Life Histories of North American Birds, with special reference to their Breeding Habits and Eggs With 19 large colored plates containing 386 Eggs. 2 vols., royal 4to, cloth, uncut. Washington, 1892-95 Autograph of Elliott Coues on title-page. One a presentation copy from the Author.

44. BEWICK (THOMAS). History of British Birds. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by the author. 2 vols., with Supplement. Together 3 vols. imp. 8vo, crushed green levant morocco, gilt line borders on backs and sides, gilt tops, uncut, by Rivière. Newcastle, 1797-1821

A SUPERB COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF LARGEST PAPER, with the vignette on p. 285, before the bar. Accompanying the above is a set of the 186 illustrations, BRILLIANT PROOF IMPRESSIONS, and AN EXTRA SERIES OF 9 PROOF IMPRESSIONS of the illustrations of the Land Birds. 5 volumes in all.

45.

A General History of Quadrupeds; A History of British Land and Water Birds. With numerous woodcut illustrations, engraved by Bewick. 3 vols. 8vo, dark blue morocco, gilt over red edges, by Rivière. Newcastle, 1824-32 A FINE SET. From the Library of William Matthews, with his bookplates.

46. A History of British Land and Water Birds. Illustrated with numerous cuts. 2 vols. 8vo, half green morocco.

Newcastle, 1826

The Sixth Edition, with additional cuts. LARGE PAPER COPY.

47. Memoir. Written by himself. Embellished with numerous wood engravings, designed and engraved by the author, and never before published. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Newcastle, 1862

FIRST EDITION.

48. The Bewick Collector. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Thomas and John Bewick. With Supplementary volume. The whole described by Thomas Hugo. Illustrations. 2 vols., royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1866-68

LARGE PAPER COPY. From the library of Thomas J. McKee, with his bookplates by E. D. French in each volume.

49.

Works. Comprising: History of British Birds, 2 vols.; History of Quadrupeds; Aesop's Fables; Memoir. Profusely illus

trated. 5 vols. royal 8vo, cloth, leather backs (rubbed), gilt tops, uncut. London: Quaritch, 1885 MEMORIAL EDITION. 750 copies printed. The First complete collected edition of Bewick's works.

50. BIGLAND (JOHN). A Natural History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects. Illustrated with 12 colored plates, including engraved title. 12mo, half crushed blue levant morocco, gilt edges, by Stikeman. Philadelphia, 1831

With the Heckscher bookplates, two variations.

51. BLAAUW (F. E.). A Monograph on the Cranes. Illustrated by 22 colored plates of Cranes and their Eggs. Folio, pictorial cloth. Leiden, 1897

53. BLACKBURN (MRS. HUGH). Birds drawn from Nature. With 22 plates on India paper. Folio, pictorial boards. Edinburgh, 1862

54. BLUMENBACH (J. F.). Manuel d'Historique Naturelle, traduit de l'Allemand. With numerous copperplate engravings of Animals, Reptiles, Fishes, Shells, and Birds. 2 vols. 8vo, original half sheep (worn).

Metz, 1803

Among the colored plates of Birds, is a curious illustration of the extinct Dodo.

55. BLYTH (EDWARD). Catalogue of Birds in the Museum Asiatic Society. 8vo, boards, cloth back. Calcutta, 1849

56. BOLTON (JAMES). Harmonia Ruralis; or, an Essay towards a Natural History of British Song Birds. Illustrated with 80 finely colored plates. 2 vols. in one, 4to, original boards, cloth back, uncut (cover loose). London, 1830

New Edition, revised and considerably augmented.

57. BONAPARTE (CHARLES L.). American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of Birds inhabiting the United States not given in Wilson. Illustrated with 27 large plates of Birds drawn from Nature by Titian R. Peale and engraved by Alex. Lawson, all beautifully colored by hand. 4 vols. royal 4to, half red morocco (rubbed). Philadelphia, 1825-33

FIRST EDITION OF EACH VOLUME, A continuation of Wilson's American Ornithology, and very much rarer than the original work. Vol. 1 contains a Table by M. Duponceau, giving 27 different Indian Names for the Wild Turkey. The signed portion of an A. L. s. of Prince Bonaparte is laid in.

59. The Genera of North American Birds, and a Synopsis of the Species found within the Territory of the United States. 8vo, half sheep (some pp. foxed). New York, 1828

On the title-page is inscribed by Prince Bonaparte "Issachar Cozzens presented by the Author." Later from the Library of G. N. Lawrence, with his autograph and annotations.

60.

A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of
London, 1838

Europe and North America. 8vo, cloth, uncut.

61.

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Conspectus Generum Avium. 2 vols. 8vo, half brown Lugduni Batavorum, 1850-57 The second volume ends at page 232, and was never quite completed. With presentation inscription in Vol. 1 from Prince Bonaparte to George N. Lawrence, the Naturalist, and the latter's pencilled notes throughout, and his MS. Index to each volume inserted.

62. Tableaux Paralleliques des Oiseaux Praecoces ou Autophages. Small 4to, half red morocco, gilt top (somewhat damp stained).

Paris, 1856

63. BREE (CHARLES ROBERT). A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles. Illustrated with numerous fine colored plates. 4 vols. royal 8vo, cloth, uncut.

FIRST EDITION. With bookplate of J. F. Rodger.

London, 1863-4

64. A History of the Birds of Europe not observed in the British Isles. With over 250 colored plates of Birds and Eggs. 5 vols., royal 8vo, half crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut, by Blackwell. London, 1875

Second and enlarged Edition.

65. BREHM (A. E.). Bird-Life: Being a History of the Bird, its Structure and Habits, together with sketches of 50 different Species. Translated from the German. Illustrated with 10 colored plates. Thick 8vo, half blue morocco, gilt top. London, 1874

66. BREWER (THOMAS M.). North American Oology. An Account of the Habits and Geographical Distribution of the Birds of North America during their Breeding Season, with Figures and Descriptions of their Eggs. 5 large colored plates containing 76 varieties of Eggs. Part I. 4to, cloth. Washington, 1857

Smithsonian Contributions.

67. BRITISH MUSEUM. The General Contents of the British Museum With Remarks serving as a Directory in viewing that Noble Cabinet. 12mo, three-quarter blue morocco, gilt top.

London, 1762

Second Edition, with additions and improvements, and a complete Index. Contains descriptions of the Birds and Eggs owned at the time by the Museum.

68. A Hand-List of Genera and Species of Birds distinguishing those contained in the British Museum. By G. R. Gray. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth. London, 1869-71

With presentation inscription from the author to Geo. N. Lawrence.

69. Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 27 vols.; also, Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. Vol. 1 [all published?]. Together 28 vols. 8vo, cloth

(one or two of the bindings of the earlier volumes a little worn, otherwise fine set). London, 1874-1899 EXTREMELY SCARCE. Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum. It is illustrated with 387 beautifully colored plates. A COMPLETE SET of one of the greatest compilations of its kind ever attempted, and which may fairly claim to be one of the most important aids to the study of systematic ornithology which has ever been produced. From the library of Elliot Coues, with his autograph in some of the volumes.

70.

A Hand-List of the Genera and Species of Birds. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. 8 vo, cloth. London, 1899

Vol. 1. All published. Autograph of Elliot Coues on title. 71. BROWNE (MONTAGU). The Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland. Illustrated with 4 plates and a map. Imp. 8vo, cloth, gilt top. Birmingham, 1889

FIRST EDITION. Pages 39 to 172 contain the description of the Birds. interleaved copy.

72. BRUNNICHII (M. TH.). Ornithologia Borealis. half red morocco.

8vo,

Hafniae, 1764

FIRST EDITION of this Catalogue of Scandinavian Birds. 73. BUFFON (COMTE DE). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. With 1008 splendid colored plates. 10 vols., 4to, original French calf, gilt backs. Paris, 1770-1786

A SPLENDID COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION of Buffon's famous work known as "Les Planches Enluminés." RARE.

74. BULLER (SIR WALTER LAWRY). A History of the Birds of New Zealand. With 34 colored plates by Keulemans. Folio, half dark green morocco, gilt top, uncut. London, 1873

FIRST EDITION. The author in his preface states: "New Zealand is the most interesting Ornithological province in the world. The last remnant of a former Continent, and geologically considered, probably the oldest Country on the face of the globe, it contains at the present day the only living representatives of an extinct race of wonderful Struthious Birds.''

75. A History of the Birds of New Zealand. Illustrated with 50 beautiful plates of which 48 are in colors after drawings by Keulemans. 2 vols., folio, half maroon morocco, gilt tops, uncut. London, 1888 Second Edition, much enlarged, and containing a figure of every Bird peculiar to New Zealand.

76. BURROUGHS (JOHN). Wake-Robin. 16mo, cloth. New York, 1871

FIRST EDITION. A copy of great association interest, with the following inscription on fly-leaf, in the hand of the author: "When I was trying to decide upon a name for this vol. I went to Walt Whitman with a list of names that had occurred to me and asked his advice. He looked over my list and when he saw the name 'Wake-Robin' he said quickly 'That's your title,' and that clinched me. John Burroughs, Dec. 7, 1904.

77.

Pepacton. 12mo, cloth.

Boston, 1881

FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author to G. M. Williamson.

78.- Riverby. 12mo, cloth, uncut.

Boston, 1895

Inscribed: "Best wishes of John Burroughs. Oct. 11, 1898." With bookplate of G. M. Williamson. Scarce in uncut state.

79. A Year in the Fields. Illustrated from photographs. 12mo, cloth, uncut.

Autographed by the author.

Boston, 1896

80. A Collection of the Writings of John Burroughs, mainly First Editions. 13 vols. 12mo, cloth. V. p., v. d.

Comprising: Wake Robin, 1877; Winter Sunshine, 1876; Birds and Poets, 1877; Locusts and Wild Honey, 1879; Wake Robin, 1885; Signs and Seasons, 1886; Indoor Studies, 1889; The Light of Day, 1900; Literary Values, 1902; John James Audubon, 1902; Far and Near, 1904; Ways and Nature, 1905; Bird and Bough, 1906.

81. BURROUGHS (JOHN, and others). Alaska. Narrative, Glaciers, Natives, History, Geography, Resources. Numerous fine plates from photographs. 2 vols. royal 8vo, cloth, gilt tops, uncut. New York, 1901

82. BUTLER (AMOS W.). The Birds of Indiana. With illustrations of many of the Species. 8vo, half dark green morocco, original wrappers bound in. N. p., n. d. Presentation copy from the author. With autograph of Elliott Coues on half title. Bound in is a pamphlet List of Birds observed in Franklin County, Ind.

83. BUTLER (ARTHUR G.). British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs. Colored frontispieces and numerous full-page illustrations. 6 vols. 4to, gilt edges. London, n. d. [1896-98]

84. Birds' Eggs of the British Isles. With 24 colored plates illustrating 475 specimens. 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 1904 85. BUTLER (E. A.). A Catalogue of the Birds of the Southern Portion of the Bombay Presidency. Folding map. 8vo, half red morocco.

This Catalogue describes 1005 specimens of Birds.

Bombay, 1880

86. CABANIS (JEAN). Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der Ornithologisches Sammlung des Oberamimann Ferdinand Heine. 5 vols. in two. 8vo, boards, morocco backs (worn), and a duplicate of parts 1 & 2. 3 vols. Halberstadt, 1850-51

87. CARVER (JONATHAN). Three Years' Travels through the Interior parts of North America, for more than Five Thousand Miles, containing an Account of the Great Lakes, etc., with a Description of the Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Insects, and Fishes peculiar to the Country, together with a concise History of the Genius, Manners and Customs of the Indians, etc. 12mo, original sheep. Philadelphia: Jos. Cruikshank, 1789

With autograph of Danl. Tenney, 1796, on title.

88. CASSIN (JOHN). Mammalogy and Ornithology of the United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838-1842.