BAIRD, SPENCER F.

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, to July, 1885. Part 1.

996 pages. Washington 1886. Hardback., Good condition, dulling to covers and a few scattered brown spots on pages.. (Anthropology exposition covers pages 815 to 914. Some subjects are: 1. Observations on stone chipping. 2. Ancient remains in Ohio. ).

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Book number: ANTH10043

Catalogue: Anthropology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON & AGASSIZ, LOUIS; HERBER, ELMER CHARLES - COLLECTED & EDITED

Correspondence between Spencer Fullerton Baird and Louis Agassiz - Two Pioneer American Naturalists

Smithsonian Institution, 1963. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex library with usual markings, good copy with some rubbing & edge wear to boards, mild page tone, text unmarked, binding tight. 1963 Hard Cover. 237 pp. Featuring photos & document facsimiles. "Spencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American ornithologist and ichthyologist. For the long period between 1850 and 1878, he was assistant-secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. where he encouraged the work of the young naturalists in the Megatherium Club. On the death of Joseph Henry he became secretary. From 1871 until his death, he also led the United States Fish Commission..Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States.".

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Book number: 1534976

BAIRD, CATHERINE [ILLUSTRATED BY C. MONA SPENCER]

Of Such is the Kingdom

Published by Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, Ltd. London First edition 1948. First edition hard back. 104 pp. Illustrated by C. Mona Spencer. Fine in Nr. Fine dust wrapper with very light shelf rubbing to panels. Dust wrapper protected.

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Book number: 9099

Catalogue: MISSIONARIES C. Mona Spencer

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XV. Lophophanes Wolleberi (Black-Crested Tit), Aegithalus Flaviceps (Verdin), Psaltriparus Melanotis (Black-Cheeked Tit).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XV. Lophophanes Wolleberi (Black-crested Tit), Aegithalus Flaviceps (Verdin), Psaltriparus Melanotis (Black-cheeked Tit). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2966

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XIII. Toxostoma Curvirostris (Curve-Billed Thrasher).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XIII. Toxostoma Curvirostris (Curve-billed Thrasher). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2972

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XVII Spizella Atrigularis (Black-Chinned Sparrow), Embernagra Rufivirgata.

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XVII Spizella Atrigularis (Black-chinned Sparrow), Embernagra Rufivirgata. Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2967

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XII. Toxostoma Lecontei (Leconte's Thrasher).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XII. Toxostoma LeContei (LeConte's Thrasher). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2971

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XI. Tyrannus Couchii (Couch's Flycatcher), Tyrannus Melancholicus, (Tail), Empidonas Obscurus.

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XI. Tyrannus Couchii (Couch's Flycatcher), Tyrannus Melancholicus, (tail), Empidonas Obscurus. Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this near fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Near Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2969

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate IX. Pachyrhamphus Aglaiae, Pathmidurus Major, Myarchus Lawrencii (Rose-Throated Flycatcher M & F, Lawrence's Flycatcher).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate IX. Pachyrhamphus Aglaiae, Pathmidurus Major, Myarchus Lawrencii (Rose-throated Flycatcher M & F, Lawrence's Flycatcher). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this near fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Near Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2970

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate #XIX Icterus Parisorum (Scott's Oriole) & Icterus Wagleri.

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press.

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Book number: 2964

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate IV. Centurus Flaviventris (M & F) (Golden-Fronted Woodpecker).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate IV. Centurus Flaviventris (M & F) (Golden-fronted Woodpecker). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2981

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XIV. Toxostoma Longirostris Long-Billed Thrasher).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XIV. Toxostoma Longirostris Long-billed Thrasher). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2973

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XVIII Cyanoloxia Parellina, Male, (Indigo Bunting), Spiza Versicolor, Male (Varied Bunting).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XVIII Cyanoloxia Parellina, Male, (Indigo Bunting), Spiza Versicolor, Male (Varied Bunting). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2974

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate VIII. Momotus Coeruleiceps (Mexican Sawbill or Blue-Crowned Motmot).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate VIII. Momotus Coeruleiceps (Mexican Sawbill or Blue-crowned Motmot). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2977

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate VII. Ceryle Americana (Adult & Young). Green Kingfisher or Texas Kingfisher.

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate VII. Ceryle Americana (Adult & Young). Green Kingfisher or Texas Kingfisher. Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

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Book number: 2980

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate X. Tyrannus Vociferans (Cassin's Flycatcher).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate X. Tyrannus Vociferans (Cassin's Flycatcher). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with original hand-coloring.

-- Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books

Book number: 2968

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate IV. Chordeiles Texensis (Lesser or Texas Nighthawk).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate IV. Chordeiles Texensis (Lesser or Texas Nighthawk). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

-- Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books

Book number: 2983

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON.

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Plate XXIII. Columba Flavirostris (Red-Billed Dove/ Pigeon).

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, 1859. Plate XXIII. Columba Flavirostris (Red-billed Dove/ Pigeon). Original hand-colored lithograph. Quarto (9 x 11.25 inches, 288.6 x 285). Sizable in format, this fine and rare hand-colored lithograph by the JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia, is from the Reports of the Birds of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird, (1823-1887), Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An astute ornithologist, who as a young naturalist studied painting with John James Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, became one of the most respected American naturalists of the 19th Century. During his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution from 1850-1878, Baird elevated the artistic integrity of the published Congressional Reports which documented the topographical and naturalists' surveys of the American West during the mid 19th Century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853-1855. and the US and Mexican Boundary Survey. Although these Surveys are notorious for their disorganization of the plates and related text, a true collator's nightmare, the value of this 19th Century ornithological work is evidenced by the elegance of hand-colored plates of many species not previously documented or rendered. Under Baird's supervision, both the quality of the illustrations, and subsequent printing of these landmark images, were recognized as some of the finest naturalist work to be produced in America at the time. Baird chose the venerable firm of JT Bowen & Company in Philadelphia to produce these fine hand-colored lithographs. An important distinction, as the very same artists and lithographers to create this work were, at the time, producing the fine hand-colored plates for Audubon's monumental productions of both the Royal Octavo Editions and Imperial Folio Edition of the Birds of America and the Quadrupeds of North America. In addition, the birds from this US/ Mexican Boundary Survey are exceedingly rare, as only 1000 sets of this report were completed. (Blum, Picturing Nature. (1993) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Sitwell & Buchanan, Fine Bird Books. (1990) New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press. Wood, Casey A. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. (1931) London: Oxford University Press. Fine with rich original hand-coloring.

-- Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books

Book number: 2984

Catalogue: Ornithology

BAIRD, SPENCER F.

United States Commision of Fish and Fisheries. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Section I Natural History of useful Aquatic Animals.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1884. 4°. XX. Mit 277 (tls. mehrfach gef.) Taf. Lwd. Ber., bestossen u. fl. Gelenke lose. Rand l. gebr., fingerfl., Stempel aud Tit.-Bl. Cloth. Rubbed, bumped and stained. Joints loose. Browned, stained, Stamp on title page.

-- Neusser Antiquariat

Book number: 11118AB

Catalogue: varia - bücher

Keywords: Amerika; Fische; Fischerei

BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON; NICHOLS, SPENCER BAIRD

The Little Hunchback Zia

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover with Graphic on front by Spencer Raird Nichols and W. T. Benda. Illustrated throughout and on endpapers. Nice copy. Cover shows wear.; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 55 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

-- A Book Legacy

Book number: 53739

Catalogue: Children

Keywords: Religious

BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON; NICHOLS, SPENCER BAIRD

The Little Hunchback Zia

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover with Graphic on front by Spencer Raird Nichols and W. T. Benda. Illustrated throughout and on endpapers. Front hinge cracking but not seperated. Cover shows wear.; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 55 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

-- A Book Legacy

Book number: 53748

Catalogue: Children

Keywords: Religious

GLEASON, ARTHUR H.; NICHOLS, SPENCER BAIRD (ILLUSTRATIONS).

The Spirit Of Christmas.

Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York: 1912. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition considering its age. A collection of short pieces probably first appearing in various popular magazines of the time on a variety of subjects including Christmas, Abraham Lincoln, the Seasons, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe and Forgiveness.
¶ 81 pages.

-- Ad Infinitum Books

Book number: 73649X1

Catalogue: ESSAYS

Keywords: ( . Abraham Lincoln Seasons Mark Twain Edgar Allen Poe Forgiveness).

BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON. ILLUSTRATED BY SPENCER BAIRD NICHOLS AND W.T. BENDA.

The Little Hunchback Zia.

Copp, Clark, Toronto, c1916.. 55 pp, small 8vo (7 9/16" H), hard cover (purple cloth with colour pastedown on front cover, gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, sepiatone and b&w illustrations, including tissue-covered frontispiece. A little hunchback ed boy travels to Bethlehem and is cured by the infant Jesus. Very light browning and tiny foxing marks on endpapers, previous owner's name and date in ink on free front endpaper and on verso of frontispiece, darkening to top of textblock, a f e w s m all scuff marks on front board picture, a few rub lines on rear board, light wrinkling to top/bottom of spine, light fading to spine color, very light wear at corners. Very Good-.

-- Capricorn Books

Book number: 19642

Catalogue: Childrens

Keywords: Christmas, Nativity, Jesus, Hunchbacks, Beggars, Lepers, Leprosy, Bethlehem, Star, Virgin Mary, Joseph of Nazareth.