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American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States : illustrated with plates engraved and colored from original drawings taken from nature / by Alexander Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 16749.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--United States.
- Birds.
- United States.
- Birds--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 9 volumes : illustrations (most color) ; 36 cm
- Manufacture:
- Philadelphia : Robert Carr.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "The first American Bird Book with coloured plates, published in America"--Sitwell, S. Fine bird books, p. 114.
- The last two volumes edited by George Ord.
- "76 hand-coloured engravings by Alexander Lawson, J.G. Warnicke, G. Murray and Benjamin Tanner from original drawings by Wilson"--Sitwell, p. 114.
- "Biographical sketch of Alexander Wilson", by George Ord: v. 9, p. xiii-xlviii.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 16749).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contains:
- Biographical sketch of Alexander Wilson.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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