Description:
Elliot, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915) The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America. New York: by the Author, 1869. First edition, two large folio volumes, illustrated with seventy-three full color hand-finished lithographs and twenty-one mounted wood-engravings; bound in matching modern green half morocco with buckram boards; some fraying at heads and tails, ffep in volume one creased, 23 1/2 x 19 in.
Provenance: The Estate of David Spinney.
Estimate $10,000-15,000
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