Daniel Giraud Elliott (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 277 pp. Navy blue buckram in very good condition. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 317. B & W illustrations. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A good hardcover of No. 39 of the Large Paper Edition limited to 100 copies for America and England, signed by the author. Covers stained, wear to head and tail of spine. Bumped corners. Deckled edges, TEG. Sixty-three black and white plates. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Scarce.…

'CAMPYLORHYNCHUS AFFINIS.'Two Allied Wrens near a lake. One is perched on a branch.Made by Daniel Giraud Elliott after own design.Medium: Handcoloured lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 42.6 x 51.8 cm (16.77 x 20.39 inch). Image size: 40.5 x 46 cm. (15.94 x 18.11 inch).BIRD-ORNITHOLOGY-ALLIED WREN-CAMPYLORHYNCHUS AFFINIS | DPO-PCO-B1-15BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThis print originates from 'The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America', published 1866-1869. Of this work only 200 copies were printed.Biography artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) was an American zoologist, and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Societe Zoologique de France. He used his great wealth to create sumptuous books with color-plates, with texts written by himself. Coloured by Philada. Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. Light ghosting from previous matting. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Daniel Giraud Elliott (illustrator).…

'CAMPYLORHYNCHUS AFFINIS.'Two Allied Wrens near a lake. One is perched on a branch.Made by Daniel Giraud Elliott after own design.Medium: Handcoloured lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 42.6 x 51.8 cm (16.77 x 20.39 inch). Image size: 40.5 x 46 cm. (15.94 x 18.11 inch).BIRD-ORNITHOLOGY-ALLIED WREN-CAMPYLORHYNCHUS AFFINIS | DPO-PCO-B1-16BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThis print originates from 'The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America', published 1866-1869. Of this work only 200 copies were printed.Biography artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) was an American zoologist, and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Societe Zoologique de France. He used his great wealth to create sumptuous books with color-plates, with texts written by himself. Coloured by Philada. Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. Light creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Daniel Giraud Elliott (illustrator).…

'SPHYROPICUS THRYROIDEUS'Two Fiery Cardinals on a branch. Rare.Made by Daniel Giraud Elliott after own design.Medium: Handcoloured lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 41 x 52 cm (16.14 x 20.47 inch). Image size: 23 x 33 cm. (9.06 x 12.99 inch).BIRD-ORNITHOLOGY-FIERY CARDINAL | DPO-PCO-B1-15BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThis print originates from 'The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America', published 1866-1869. Of this work only 200 copies were printed.Biography artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) was an American zoologist, and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Societe Zoologique de France. He used his great wealth to create sumptuous books with color-plates, with texts written by himself. Coloured by Philada. Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. Light ghosting from previous matting. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Daniel Giraud Elliott (illustrator).…

'MACRORHAMPHUS SCOLOPACEUS.'two Long-Billed Snipes on a shoreline. Made by Daniel Giraud Elliott after own design.Medium: Handcoloured lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 53.2 x 45.2 cm (20.94 x 17.8 inch). Image size: 46 x 33 cm. (18.11 x 12.99 inch).BIRD-ORNITHOLOGY-LONG BILLED SNIPE-MACRORHAMPHUS | DPO-PCO-B1-16BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThis print originates from 'The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America', published 1866-1869. Of this work only 200 copies were printed.Biography artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) was an American zoologist, and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Societe Zoologique de France. He used his great wealth to create sumptuous books with color-plates, with texts written by himself. Coloured by Philada. Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Daniel Giraud Elliott (illustrator).…

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1913. Sm. 4to. Orig. wrappers (small water staining on spines). Uncut edges. With col. frontisp. on Vol. I, b/w frontisp. in Vol. III, num. col. plates and b/w illusts. Front cover of Volume I touch loose. Offsetting throughout, otherwise a fine set of this important work. (Monographs of the American Museum of Natural History. Monograph Series Volumes I-III).…

'CARDINALIS IGNEUS'Two Fiery Cardinals on a branch. Rare.Made by Daniel Giraud Elliott after own design.Medium: Handcoloured lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 41 x 52 cm (16.14 x 20.47 inch). Image size: 23 x 33 cm. (9.06 x 12.99 inch).BIRD-ORNITHOLOGY-FIERY CARDINAL | DPO-PCO-B1-29BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThis print originates from 'The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America', published 1866-1869. Of this work only 200 copies were printed.Biography artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) was an American zoologist, and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Societe Zoologique de France. He used his great wealth to create sumptuous books with color-plates, with texts written by himself. Coloured by Philada. Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. Light ghosting from previous matting. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Daniel Giraud Elliott (illustrator).…

'COLAPTES CHRYSOIDES.'Two Gilded Flickers on a tree trunk. The Gilded Flicker is a species of woodpecker, native to the southern states of America, and the north of Mexico.Made by Daniel Giraud Elliott after own design.Medium: Handcoloured crayon style lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 42.6 x 51.8 cm (16.77 x 20.39 inch). Image size: 39.5 x 46.5 cm. (15.55 x 18.31 inch).BIRD-ORNITHOLOGY-GILDED FLICKER-WOODPECKER | DPO-PCO-B1-19BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThis print originates from 'The new and heretofore unfigures species of the birds of North America', published 1866-1869. Of this work only 200 copies were printed.Biography artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) was an American zoologist, and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Societe Zoologique de France. He used his great wealth to create sumptuous books with color-plates, with texts written by himself. Coloured by Philada. Condition: good, given age. A small stain in the image. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Daniel Giraud Elliott (illustrator). …