Fauna Americana: being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America color pictorial dust jacket

color pictorial dust jacket

8 full page monochrome lithographed plates (15 total lithographs - many are two-page)

over tan cloth boards

The floor of the drawing room was strewn with the wreck of Gould’s magnificent work on the Toucans

there are very few signs of use in any of the 74 numbers

Fauna Americana: being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America color pictorial dust jacketPp. x, 11 318, (2, list of subscribers + errata). Recent tan full calf leather with five raised bands on the spine, with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, antique marbled endpapers, 8vo. Casey Wood (pg. 377) calls this volume an early and important work. This is one of the first descriptions of the mammals of North America published in the US; some new species are described. Only a few hundred copies were published; 86 subscribers are listed