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Jacob H. Studer : The Birds of North America. One Hundred and Nineteen Artistic Colored Plates Representing the Different Species and Varieties

The Natural Science Association of America, New York, 1888

Twentieth-century full red cloth, flat spine with title in gilt, all edges gilt. Title in red and black. , An excellent copy, plates are crisp and clean., Folio, P. announcement, blank (2), frontis, blank (2), title, dedication, 1-16, 1-182, blank (2), (8)., With 120 engravings, including the steel-engraved frontis portrait and 119 chromolithographic plates of various birds.

The Announcement section of the book declares it “a work containing artistically colored illustrations of over seven hundred different species of birds, comprising most all that are known to exist on this Continent, including Mexico and Central America, accompanied by a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, and embracing in general the observations made by the most eminent writers on Ornithology…The original drawings for the work were made from nature, by Theodore Jasper, A. M., M. D., an Artist of superior capabilities, who has made Ornithology a life-study. Revised by John Graham Bell, Esq., Audubon’s companion in the field, and a well known Ornithologist and Taxidermist.� , Sitwel, Fine Bird Books, 145.

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