Author:

Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887  Search this

United States and Mexican Boundary Survey  Search this

Engraver:

Dougal, William H. 1822-1895  Search this

Illustrator:

Metzeroth, R (Robert)  Search this

Richard, John H. approximately 1807-  Search this

Deane, James 1801-1858  Search this

Lithographer:

T. Sinclair's Lith.  Search this

Physical description:

35 pages, [131] leaves of plates in various foliations : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm

Type:

Manuscripts

Place:

United States

Mexico

Date:

1859

Notes:

Handwritten title page ([1] page) laid in: U.S. and Mex. Bound. Survey. Reptiles. Proofs for steel plates and original drawings.

Plates signed by W.H. Dougal, R. Metzeroth, and J.H. Richard.

Includes 19 colored and 40 uncolored engraved plate proofs, as well as 72 of the original hand-drawn and hand-colored illustrations upon which the plates are based.

Includes index.

The final plate (not counted above), with caption reading "Ornithichnites compressus, on stone from nature by J. Deane M.D., T. Sinclair's Lith. Phila.", appears to belong to a different work.

Stamps on printed title page: Smithsonian Institution, marked "cancelled"; Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jan. 17, 1902; accession number 170555.

Disbound; interleaved with barrier paper; in modern green cloth-covered portfolio.

Topic:

Reptiles  Search this

Reptiles--Pictorial works  Search this

Call number:

QL651 .B16 1859a

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_509798