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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm32605159
040 $aDLC$cUCW$dOCL$dSMI$dOCoLC
049 $aSNI1$nosds 03/13/03; add 3 uncat BIRD v. (plates only); recat QL674.A91b SCNHRB (to correct ed.), assign new bc's.
050 0 $aQL674$b.A9 1871
090 $aQL674$b.A91b
099 $aQL674.A91b
100 1 $aAudubon, John James,$d1785-1851.
245 14 $aThe birds of America,$bfrom drawings made in the United States and their territories.$cBy John James Audubon ...
260 $aNew York :$bG.R. Lockwood,$c[1871], c1839.
300 $a8 v., 500 leaves of plates.$bcol. illus.$c28 cm.
500 $aIssued in 100 parts, with 5 plates for each part.
500 $a"The last, or a reprint of the last, complete edition of Audubon's work on the birds of America. It is not dated ..."--Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 26.
500 $aThe text is based on Audubon's descriptions of birds in his Ornithological biography (1831-1839), which was written with the assistance of William MacGillivray. The majority of the plates are based on those appearing in the double elephant folio ed., without text, London, 1827-1838, with some changes made to accommodate the reduced octavo size.
500 $a"C.A. Alvord, printer"--Verso of t.p.'s.
500 $aThe plates have lithographed beige or aqua backgrounds with hand-colored details, and use block, rather than italic, lettering for the artists' and printers' attributions (both the colored backgrounds and the block lettering are identifying features for the later octavo eds.).
500 $aThe plates were done after J.J. and J.W. Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly, and others, and printed and lithographed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia.
500 $aPlate 187 in the text (Townsend's finch) is misnumbered as 188 on the plate, and plate 188 in the text (Brown finch) is misnumbered as 187 on the plate.
500 $a"John James Audubon" (a biographical sketch): v. 1, p. i-xv, following table of contents.
583 $aextracted picklist$c20081216$zBHLEX
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432118$c1998/02/09 through 1998/07/10$enone ; plate - Rose breasted grossbreak$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432126$c1997/05/09 through 1997/08/09$enone ; plate - Kingfisher$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432118$c1997/08/09 through 1997/11/09$enone ; plate - Robin$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432118$c1997/11/09 through 1998/02/09$enone ; plate - Cardinal$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432118$c1998/02/09 through 1998/07/10$enone ; plate - Rose breasted grossbreak$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432126$c1997/05/09 through 1997/08/09$enone ; plate - Kingfisher$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432118$c1997/08/09 through 1997/11/09$enone ; plate - Robin$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aAudubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit$bQL674.A91b ; 39088004432118$c1997/11/09 through 1998/02/09$enone ; plate - Cardinal$hWilliam E. Baxter$iSIL Exhibition Gallery$kHelena Wright$lreturn to shelf
583 $aSmithsonian's America$b39088002531457; Plate 12, no. 3, following p. 50$c1994/01/15 through 1994/10/31$hDiane Shaw$jNippon Convention Center, Chiba Prefecture, Japan$kMerrill Lavine (NMAH).
590 $aSCNHRB has two copies; neither is dated. The publisher, George R. Lockwood, issued three undated reprints of The birds of America, in 1870, 1871, and 1889. Both SCNHRB copies have the same plate numbering error described in the NUC pre-56 LC record for the 1871 ed. and are a presumed match for that edition.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 1 has 8 v.; the biography of Audubon in v. 1 is wanting.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: Gardner Rand.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 1 has later half-leather binding with marbled boards; raised bands; blind-tooled spine; marbled endpapers and edges.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2 is incomplete, containing the plates only.
590 $aEach v. of SCNHRB c. 2 has bound at end: Baird, S.F. Catalogue of North American birds, chiefly in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. (Smithsonian miscellaneous collections). Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1859. Bound together subsequent to publication.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2 has binder's titles: v. 1: Land birds, plates 1-160; v. 2: Land birds, plates 161-320; v. 3: Water birds, plates 321-500.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2, v. 1 has t.p. with imprint: New York ; Philadelphia : J.J. Audubon, 1844, although the plates are apparently from one of the G.R. Lockwood reprints.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2, v. 2 has plates numbered 161-302 [not 320, as on binder's title], plus plates numbered 481-500 (duplicated from v. 3).
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2, v. 3 has plates numbered 303-500.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2 has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Dec. 28, 1920; accession no. (all 3 v.): 249931. Note typed on old card set: "Baird, Spencer Fullerton, estate ..."
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2 has later green morocco half-leather binding with mottled paper boards; raised bands; gilt-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt.
650 0 $aBirds$zNorth America
650 0 $aBirds$vPictorial works
700 1 $aMacGillivray, William,$d1796-1852.
700 1 $aRand, Gardner,$eformer owner.$5DSI
700 1 $aBowen, John T.,$dca. 1801-1856?,$elithographer.
700 1 $aBaird, Spencer Fullerton,$d1823-1887,$eformer owner.$5DSI
945 $aRCP237
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 1$i39088009319831$nlc$trare
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 2$i39088009319682$nlc$trare
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 3$i39088009904863$nlc$trare