| Variant title |
Natural history of hummingbirds |
| Portion of title |
Humming-birds |
| Series |
Naturalist's library. Ornithology ; vol. 1-2
Naturalist's library. Ornithology ; vol. 1-2. ^A1449457
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| Local note | Joyner Rare volumes bound together. Copy imperfect: lacks publisher's advertisements. Also includes catalog slip for item attributed in handwritten note to "Dawson Cat. Dec. 1940" laid in. |
| General note | First edition of volumes 1 and 2 of the Ornithology series, issued as the first and third volumes within the 40-volume "Naturalist's library" series edited by Jardine and originally published from 1833 to 1843. Arrangement and numbering of volumes was altered when the "Naturalist's library" was completed in 1843, and in later reissues of the series. See C. Nissen, Zoologische Buchillustration, page 504; and Ayer Library catalogue, pages 324-326 |
| General note | V. 1: "Illustrated by thirty-five plates, coloured, and numerous wood-cuts; with memoir of Linnaeus"; v. 2: "Illustrated by thirty-one plates, coloured; with portrait and memoir of Pennant." |
| General note | "Memoir of Linnaeus": v. 1, p. [11]-48 |
| General note | "Memoir of Pennant": v. 2, p. [1]-65 (second Arabic numeral sequence) |
| General note | Plates are signed: "Lizars sc." The bird figures are hand-colored, depicted without backgrounds other than uncolored twigs or branches on which the birds are perched. Plate captions for species are Latin names only. Vol. 1 has plates numbered 1-34; vol. 2 has plates numbered 1-30 |
| General note | With added, engraved, series title page with hand-colored illustration: The naturalist's library. Ornithology. Vol. I[-II]. |
| General note | With added letterpress title page dated 1833: The naturalist's library. Ornithology. Vol. I[-II]. Humming-birds. |
| General note | "Advertisement" in vol. 2 (pages [1]-3 following Contents) is dated November 1833 |
| General note | Publisher's advertisements bound in at end of each vol. (vol. 1: 31, [1], 8 p.; v. 2: 34, 8, 4 p.). |
| General note | Includes index. |
| References |
Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, page 324 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Dean Van Clay 10-4-22 |
