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(BIRDS.) Bonaparte, Lucien. American Ornithology . . . Not Given by Wilson. Volume 1, only (of 4), containing 9 hand-colored engraved plates, including Audubon's debut in ornithological illustration represented by the Great Crow Blackbird. Extra-Illustrated with 6 contemporary engraved portraits and views. Folio, 19th century 1/2 morocco, extremities worn; plates generally quite clean, extra-illustrations quite heavily foxed and crudely mounted to blank sheets, final text leaf with major repair and paper-backed. Philadelphia, 1825
