$10,000
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814. 9 vols. bound in three. Folio, 3/4 green calf, gilt-lettered spine labels. With list of subscribers, half titles and 76 hand-colored engravings by Alexander Lawson, G. Murray, Benjamin Tanner and J. G. Warnicke, from original drawings by Wilson. [Together with:] By Charles Bonaparte. Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell; Carey, Lea & Carey, 1825-1833. 4 vols. in one. Folio, bound in matching 3/4 green calf. With 27 hand-colored engravings by Titian Ramsay Peale and Alexander Rider. Foxing and browning to plates in all volumes and some offsetting; rubbing to binding; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; one plate detached. First edition of the first color plate American bird book published in America, together with its four-volume continuation. Wilson, whose work was published more than a decade before Audubon's appeared, is considered the father of American ornithology.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2014-03-27
