The Birds of Eastern North America

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The Birds of Eastern North AmericaCharles Johnson Maynard, 1881MAYNARD, Charles Johnson (1845-1929). The Birds of Eastern North America; with Original Descriptions of all the Species which Occur East of the Mississippi River between the Arctic Circle and the Gulf of Mexico. Newtonville, MA: C.J. Maynard, 1881. First edition with revised front matter, from the library of fellow ornithologist Robert Ridgeway—presentation copy of part I. This bibliographically complex work was originally issued in sixteen parts starting in 1872: first as The Birds of Florida and then undergoing three title changes over the course of its publication before finally ending with the present title. This copy comprises the original parts bound together with the printed wrappers retained, with the new preface and purple slip with binder's instructions, as well as the slip announcing the scope and final title change of the entire work. Ridgeway, an accomplished ornithologist and artist in his own right, gets a mention in the new preface over a small disagreement over the taxonomy and naming of Ammodromus melanoleucus. Bennett p. 73 (see note); Nissen IVB 611. See Batchelder, "A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Charles Johnson Maynard" in The Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 2.7 (Jan. 4, 1951). 16 parts in one, quarto (290 x 233mm). New general title; both versions of cancel leaves p.1 and 191 present; both slips announcing new preface text and new title bound in; 32 hand-colored lithographs with some tissue guards (hole affecting a few words on p. 309, some light toning, a few plate captions just shaved). Modern red half morocco with wrappers of each part bound in (one wrapper with closed tear, some light dustsoiling to wrappers). Provenance: Robert Ridgeway (1850-1928, ornithological artist and Smithsonian Curator of Birds; stamp, dated October 4, 1882, signatures on individual parts).
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