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BIRDS

“My Style of Drawing Birds”

Audubon, John James. My style of drawing birds by John James Audubon.... Ardsley, NY: Pub. By the Overland Press for the Haydn Foundation, 1979. Tall 8vo. 26 pp., [2] ff., illus., facsims.
$67.50

Audubon and his journals

Edinburgh Journal of Science

• New. Attractive.

With a

Charming! Gilt! Cover Vignette

Browne, Daniel Jay. The American bird fancier; considered with reference to the breeding, rearing, feeding, management, and peculiarities of cage and house birds.... New York: C.M. Saxton, (copyright 1850). 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., 107, [1], 12 (adv.) pp.; illus.
$225.00

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Provenance: Front pastedown and free endpaper with inked inscriptions belonging to “Caroline and Jane (of) Millport” and (twice) “J. Emory Botsford (of) Millport NY.” These bird lore–seeking Botsfords were surely kin to Anna Botsford Comstock (1854–1930)—identified by the online Encyclopedia Britannica as a prominent American “naturalist, illustrator, and educator” and by a Cornell “Sciencenter” publication as “the first female Cornell professor and arguably the mother of nature education.” A pleasant thought, if not a matter of true importance! (See: http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Comstock_Anna_Botsford.html and http://seti.sentry.net/archive/bioastro/2002/Jul/0145.html.)

Binding: Publisher’s pebbled blue cloth, covers and spine gilt- and blind-stamped,. Front cover with gilt-stamped pictorial vignette of a woman at a casement window, surrounded by birds on boughs and caged.

• Binding lightly rubbed, gilt bright. Endpapers browned, pages clean. A nice copy.

TwoLARGE Volumes — 106 Color Plates

Eaton, Elon Howard. Birds of New York. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910. Large 4to. 2 vols. I: 501 pp., 42 plts. II: 719 pp., 64 plts.
$190.00

Natural History of New York

This publication is Memoir 12 of the New York State Museum. The plates are photomechanicals in full color.

Birds of PA

Sutton, George Miksch. [cover title] A year's program for bird protection in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Pa.: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Board of Game Commissioners, [1925–1929?]. 8vo. 50 pp.; illus.
$30.00

• Original wrappers, illustrated in color on the front with the figure of a cardinal. Front and back wrappers lightly soiled, front wrapper with short tear at bottom edge. Internally clean. (13961)

Harems Hashish & Libraries

Temple, Grenville, Sir. Excursions in the Mediterranean: Algiers and Tunis. London: Saunders & Otley, 1835. 12mo (20.5 cm; 8"). 2 vols. Vol. I: Frontis. (color), ix, [1], 301, [1] pp., 2 fold. maps. Vol II: Frontis., vii, [1], 358, [2] pp., 2 plts. of facsims. (one double, one single-page).
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Provenance: Ownership initials “G.R.W.” of William Rollinson Whittingham, fourth Episcopal bishop of Maryland, the “G” being for Guillermus (as Whittingham was enamored of Latin); ex–Maryland Diocesan Library.

Evidence of readership:

• Brunet 20417; Allibone, III, 2367. Uncut copy in original publisher's boards covered in brown paper, with paper spine labels; paper covering chipped with loss, and age-soiled. Rubber-stamp on front pastedowns of the Diocesan Library of Maryland (properly deaccessioned); paper library label on each spine (not unsightly). A good set now housed in a blue cloth clamshell box with red leather spine labels. (23060)

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