NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK, OR THE NEW YORK FAUNA.... PART II. BIRDS

Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate foxing, mostly to the text with just some plates affected. Most of the plates contain small, neat pencil identifications of the birds but are otherwise clean. Text block is cracked with one plate detached but present. A Good, complete set of these plates. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, lacking the spine. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders." One of only 300 copies where the plates were colored.