The Cabinet of Natural History, and American Rural Sports with Illustrations

Published by J. & T. Doughty 1830-1833, Philadelphia, 1830

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Three quarto volumes (27.75cm); full polished tan calf bound by Bennett, spines in six compartments, with five raised bands, maroon and hunter green leather title labels, decorations stamped in gilt within the compartments, with double-ruled gilt-tooled borders and corner pieces on covers; marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; Vol.I: engraved title page, [3],4-298,[299-300],viii, with a black & white portrait of Charles Wilson Peale and 24 hand-colored plates; Vol.II: engraved title page, [1]-292,x, with a black & white portrait of William Bartram and 24 plates (23 hand-colored, 1 black & white); Vol.III: engraved title page, [1]-96pp, with 8 plates (7 hand-colored, 1 black & white). Minute wear to a few spine bands; all volumes show some degree of offsetting from plates onto opposing or preceding pages; faint foxing to engraved title pages in each volume; a few very faint cup ring marks on verso of one plate in Vol.1 (at p.24); similar ring marks to pp.165-168 in Vol.2, with scattered foxing to a few terminal leaves; old tide-marks to edges of the first dozen or so pages in Vol.3, with p.3-4 professionally and skilfully remargined, and some scattered foxing to several other text pages; Near Fine. "The Doughtys' Cabinet is an odd amalgam of natural history, sporting accounts, travel narratives, and practical advice for the countryman. This was the first major book issued in the United States to be illustrated with hand-colored lithographic plates, preceded only by three minor books in the 1820s. It marks the beginning of the dominance of lithography in book illustration, although the process has been commercially viable in America for a decade. The plates in the first volume are by Thomas Doughty, well known as a Hudson River School painter, who executed the drawings on the lithographic stones" (Reese, Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 12). HOWES D-433; PHILLIPS, p.69. 89255.…

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Title
The Cabinet of Natural History, and American Rural Sports with Illustrations
Author
[NATURAL HISTORY] DOUGHTY, John and Thomas
Publisher
J. & T. Doughty 1830-1833, Philadelphia
Publication year
1830
Edition
First Edition.
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