THE FREDERIC GALLATIN, JR. 



and folding "Summary of Editions." i2mo, cloth, un- 

 cut. London, The Roxburghe Press, n. d. 



Published under the auspices of the Selborne Society. 



WHITLOCK, F. B., and HUTCHINSON, A. S. 

 The Birds of Derbyshire. Annotated and with nu- 

 merous additions. Map and 6 full-page plates. 8vo, 

 cloth. London, B em rose, 1893. 



WILLCOX, M. A. Pocket Guide to the Common 

 Land Birds of New England. i6mo, cloth. Boston, 

 Lee and Shepard, 1895. 



FIRST AND OTHER NOTABLE EDITIONS OF 

 ALEXANDER WILSON'S "AMERI- 

 CAN ORNITHOLOGY" 



WILSON, ALEXANDER. American Ornithol- 

 ogy; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United 

 States. Illustrated with plates from original drawings 

 taken from Nature. 79 copper-plates, containing 397 

 Birds, engraved by Alex. Lawson and G. Murray and 

 all carefully colored by hand. 9 vols., royal 4to, 

 original half red morocco. Philadelphia, Bradford 

 and Inskeep, 1808-1810-181 1-181 1-1812-1812-1813- 

 1814-1814. 



First Edition of each volume. 



Laid in are 2 fine portraits of Wilson by Edwin and Lizars, 

 2 engravings of Niagara engraved by Barralet after the original 

 drawings by Alexander Wilson and a rare Autograph Letter from 

 the celebrated Ornithologist to the Bank of the United States, 

 dated 1799. 



Vols. 7, 8, 9 were published posthumously under the charge 

 of George Ord, who in the 9th vol. included his Life of Wilson. 



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