Author: DE KAY, James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Title: Natural History of New York. Zoology of New York, or the New York Fauna... . Part II. Birds
Description: Albany, Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders." One of only 300 copies where the plates were colored. Nearly all of the plates are bright and clean, but a few have ragged edges. The first two plates are the worst, with the first trimmed with tears and the second with some staining. Spine badly worn, covers detached, text block cracked with many plates loose. A Good, complete set of these plates .

Keywords: Birds, New York, Ornithology, Color Plate Books, New York State Illustrated Books Natural History Americana Animals


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