Lot 13: *WILSON, ALEXANDER; BONAPARTE, CHARLES LUCIEN. American Ornithology. London, n.d. (c. 1880). 2 vols. 61 plates.

WILSON, ALEXANDER; BONAPARTE, CHARLES LUCIEN
American Ornithology; or, Natural History of the Birds of the United States. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, n.d. (c. 1880)

2 vols., comprising vols. 1 and 3 (of 3) only. 4to, quarter morocco over red cloth, gilt lettering and hawk illustration stamped to spines. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 61 chromolithographed plates (vol. 1: 26, frontispiece; vol. 3: 35). 2-inch portion of binding vol. 1 detached; wear to boards with some loss, mainly vol. 1, to cloth and spine ends; hinges starting on both vols.; manuscript ex-libris both vols.; frontispiece vol. 1 detached and laid in; a few stains, mainly at preliminaries; otherwise plates are clean and text is largely free of markings.