Oölogy of New England: A Description of the Eggs, Nests and Breeding Habits of the Birds Known to Breed in New England with Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs. - Rare Book Insider
Oölogy of New England: A Description of the Eggs

Capen (Elwin A.)

Oölogy of New England: A Description of the Eggs, Nests and Breeding Habits of the Birds Known to Breed in New England with Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs.

Boston, Mudge. 1886: 1886
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Tall folio (10 1/2 x 14ins, 270 x 375mm). Text and plates loose and unbound (see below) in original black cloth box, small splits, a little rubbed, but very good. pp 116. "25 full page plates of eggs, representing several hundred, beautifully coloured. Notably complete and good". ( Bennett, American Nineteenth Century Colour Plate Books). The dramatic colour printed plates show 323 eggs, decoratively arranged on each plate with ruled border and captioned, most images far larger than usual, and printed on a straw-coloured or very light-green card stock. This has become a scarce book, and is the first copy I have seen in many years. Quite the largest format of its sort and the only one on American Birds Eggs. The Finest Possible Copy. " This magnificent volume. has long been out of print. Last Summer amongst the effects of the late E.A Capen a few copies of this valuable work, uncut, untrimmed and unbound, but each copy assembled and wrapped ready for the binder were unearthed, and. the undersigned secured them. The few copies I possess are being distributed among my old. friends." From the label affixed to the top of the box, in the name of Frank H. Lattin M.D., Albion. N.Y.
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