Field ornithology : comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds, and a check list of North American birds / by Elliott Coues
iv, 116 p., 137 leaves, [1], 3 p. : 1 ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Classification
Place:
North America
Date:
1874
Notes:
Title vignette.
"Printed at the Salem Press, F.W. Putnam & Co."--Verso of t.p.
The third page grouping ([1]-137) is the Check list of North American birds, which was also issued separately. This section is separately paged, with text and numbering appearing on the recto side of each leaf only.
Additions and corrections to the manual appear on p. 113-116 (2nd group), and those for the Check list appear on p. 123-137 (3rd group).
The final 3 p. are publisher's advertisements.
Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 144
Also available online.
Also issued online.
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SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088009939596) has bookplates: 1. Jonathan Dwight Jr.; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Marcia Brady Tucker; with Mrs. Tucker's collation note on t.p.
SCNHRB c. 1 has the copyright statement that should have appeared on the verso of the t.p. misprinted upside down over the text of the Contents listing on p. iii.
SCNHRB c. 1 has publisher's gold-, black-, and blind-stamped blue embossed cloth publisher's binding with brown polished endpapers.
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015707243) inscribed in ink on 2nd front free endpaper: Prof. S.F. Baird with kindest regards of Elliott Coues.
SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Library, National Museum Smithsonian Institution Nov 27 1888 [ms. acc. no.] 126338.
SCNHRB c. 2 has slip of paper with copyright information tipped-in following t.p.
SCNHRB c. 2 in original purple publisher's cloth binding, title stamped in black on front cover with gilt vignette, title in gilt on spine.
