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LEADER: 02813cam 2200433Ia 4500
005 20050415142400.0
008 820701s1839 enkaf 000 0 eng d
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm08566742
040 $aSMI$cSMI$dOCLCQ$dSMI$dUtOrBLW
049 $aSNI1$nosds 04/15/05; recat/trans. of QH81.W33 1839 NH (former bc 39088007456304), add as c. 2; update SCNHRB c. 1 info
090 $aQH81$b.W33 1839
099 $aQH81.W33 1839
100 1 $aWaterton, Charles,$d1782-1865.
245 10 $aEssays on natural history, chiefly ornithology /$cby Charles Waterton ... ; with an autobiography of the author, and a view of Walton Hall.
246 1 $iBinder's title (c. 2):$aWaterton's Essays on natural history$5DSI
246 3 $aEssays on natural history, [1st series]
250 $a3rd ed.
260 $aLondon :$bLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans,$c1839.
300 $alxxxiii, 334 p., [1] leaf of plates :$b1 ill. ;$c17 cm.
500 $aFirst series.
500 $a"London: printed by A. Spottiswoode"--Verso of t.p.
500 $aFrontispiece signed: Drawn by Capt. Edw. Jones, 1831.
583 $aextracted picklist$c20081216$zBHLEX
590 $aSCNHRB has two copies.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 1 (39088003010170) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Alexander Wetmore (with his autograph in ink on the front free endpaper); a newsclipping ([1] p.) from an unidentified English newspaper is laid in: "Some letters of Waterton the naturalist."
590 $aSCNHRB c. 1 has an old green half-leather binding with embossed green cloth-covered boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine and covers; and marbled endpapers and edges.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2 (39088011237393) has [2], 16 p. of publisher's advertisements (the 2nd group is dated from April 1839) bound in at the end of the volume. Pages 5-6 of the 2nd group have been torn out.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2 has the autograph of a former owner on t.p.: T.E. Partridge; a ms. pencil note on the front paste-down endpaper says "imported Jany. 1871"; a printed bookseller's label for "Godwin, bookseller, Bath" is mounted on the front paste-down endpaper; an embossed stamp for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum is on p. iii, with accession no.: 175117.
590 $aSCNHRB c. 2 has the publisher's blind-stamped green embossed cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine and yellow endpapers; the front free endpaper is wanting.
600 10 $aWaterton, Charles,$d1782-1865.
650 0 $aNatural history
650 0 $aBirds
700 1 $aSpottiswoode, Andrew,$eprinter.
700 1 $aJones, Edw.,$cCapt.,$eill.
700 1 $aWetmore, Alexander,$d1886-1978,$eformer owner.$5DSI
700 1 $aPartridge, T. E.,$eformer owner.$5DSI
945 $aDC 5-19-82
945 $aosds 1/31/03 add 700
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$nlc$trare