Studer's popular ornithology: the birds of North America : upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties, comprising all that are known to exist on this continent are represented on the one hundred and nineteen crayon plates, artistically drawn and colored from nature / by Theodore Jasper ; including a letter press devoted to giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on standard authorities, and the most eminent writers on ornithology of the day ; edited by Jacob H. Studer & Co.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Studer, Jacob H., 1840-1904, pub.

Contributor:

Jasper, Theodore.

Imprint Society (Barre, Mass.)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Pictorial works.

Birds.

Birds--North America.

North America.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

182 pages, 119 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 38 cm

Other Title:

Birds of North America

Place of Publication:

Barre, Mass. : Imprint Society ; New York : Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., 1977.

Notes:

"For the first time in almost one hundred years, this celebrated American classic is once again available to us. A stunning combination of noted original art by the nineteenth-century naturalist Theodore Jasper and Jacob Studer's scientific, yet lively observations, this book, first published in 1881, soon became America's most popular ornithology reference volume. Writing nearly six decades after Audubon's famed studies, Studer was able to use that important work in compiling his own monumental volume, and thus made it in many respects more comprehensive in its coverage of our continent's birds."--Foreword.

Includes indexes.

Issued in a slip case.

"This limited edition of 500 copies ... has been printed and bound by Rand McNally and Company, of Hammond, Indiana. The illustrations were reproduced from the original edition using the process of direct color separation."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is 269.

OCLC:

6671357