Youth's Ornithology, No. 1 With 23 Engravings
[Children's] Merrill, Rufus and Co, publishers
From Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 17 September 1998
From Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 17 September 1998
About this Item
Includes engravings of the belted king fisher, golden pheasant, ring neck pheasant of China, California quail found in California and other parts of Mexico, Chilean sea eagles, Bird of Paradise (New Guinea, South Seas), and Carolina Parrot "these birds are rapidly diminishing". Small 8vo, 24pp, frontispiece, 22 engravings in text. Pictorial yellow paper wraps, titled & illustrated in black on the front cover with a full page illustration of the peacock at the rear wrapper. Wrappers slt dusty, lower corner chipped; some fox spotting internally. The cover illustration is signed in type by the illustrator H. G. Eastman; engraved by Henry Walker Herrick. Seller Inventory # 19643
Bibliographic Details
Title: Youth's Ornithology, No. 1 With 23 Engravings
Publisher: Rufus Merrill, Low's Brick Block -- up stairs, Concord NH
Publication Date: 1844
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very good overall
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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