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(BIRDS.) Baird, Spencer F.; and Cassin, John. The Birds of North America. 100 hand-colored lithographed plates. 2 volumes. 4to, 11 1/2x9 1/4 inches, publisher's blind stamped brown cloth, light edge wear with a small amount of chipping at spine caps; in general quite clean and brightly colored, few plates with a "T. Glover" ink stamp to lower margin; front free endpaper inscribed by the author: "S.F. Baird, Washington, April 20, 1864". New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1860
Plates comprising an assortment of new material with re-issues of images from the U.S. Pacific Railroad Survey and the U.S. Mexican Boundary Survey.with: a stitch-bound 1860 pamphlet Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections - Instructions in Reference to Collecting Nests and Eggs of North American Birds by Joseph Henry tipped to rear endpaper of the text volume; and a stitch-bound 1857 pamphlet Catalogue of North American Mammals by Spencer F. Baird tipped to rear endpaper of the atlas volume.
