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Lot 346
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16 vols. 16 vols.
Elliott Coues: Coues, Elliott. Key to North American Birds. Salem: Naturalists' Agency; New York & Boston, 1872. 1st ed. 4to, orig. gilt-pictorial plum cloth; light to moderate wear. With 6 plates, numerous wood-engraved text illus. Former owner's signature at head of title page. Internally generally clean. * The Boston, 1884, 2nd ed. of the preceding, 4to, orig. blue cloth; corners bumped & blistered, other wear, chromolithographic frontis, text illus., ex-library - ink stamp on title, other marks, s.w.a.f. * The Boston, 1892, 4th ed. of the preceding, 4to, orig. cloth; moderate wear. Chromolithographic frontis., text illus. * The Boston, 1927, 6th ed. of the preceding, 2 vols., 4to, orig. cloth, scuffed, color frontis., text illus., occasional internal dampstaining. * _ _. Field Ornithology. Salem: Naturalists' Agency, etc., 1874. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. green cloth, gilt; spine ends & joints frayed. * _ _. Birds of The Northwest. Washington: G.P.O., 1874. 8vo, orig. cloth; moderate wear. Ex-library - blind stamp on title page, other markings. * _ _. Birds of the Colorado Valley. Washington: G.P.O., 1878. 8vo, orig. 1/2 morocco & marbled bds.; extremities rubbed. * (Coues, Elliott, editor.) Stearns, Winfrid A. New England Bird Life. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881-1883. 1st ed. 2 vols. 8vo, orig. green cloth, gilt spines; edge wear, spine ends frayed. text illus. * Coues, Elliott. "Third Installment of American Ornithological Bibliography." Bulletin... U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Vol. V. Washington: G.P.O., 1880. 8vo, later blue cloth; edge wear, front free endpaper detached. Some internal smudging. * _ _. Ornithological Bibliography. Washington, 1876-1879 [but ca. 1990]. 1/100 reprinted by Maurizio Martino. 8vo, orig. cloth. * _ _. The Fur-Bearing Animals of North America. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1877. 1st trade ed. 8vo, orig. gilt-pictorial orange cloth; moderate wear. With 20 plates. Scattered light foxing. Ink stamp at foot of title. * (Coues, Elliott, editor.) Fowler, Jacob. The Journal. New York, etc., 1899. #349/950. 8vo, orig. blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Frontis. Minor internal dampstaining. Howes F-298, giving date as 1898. * Cutright, P.R.; Broadhead, M.J. Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian. Urbana: Univ. of Ill. Press, (1981). 1st ed. 8vo, orig. red cloth, d/j. Light wear. Portrait frontis. A few pencil annotations.