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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm07011846
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049 $aSNI1$nljdb 20110404. BHL recat, retaining call no.
090 $aQL674$b.S46 1825
099 $aQL674.S46 1825
100 1 $aSelby, Prideaux John,$d1788-1867.
245 10 $aIllustrations of British ornithology /$cby Prideaux John Selby.
260 $aEdinburgh :$bPrinted for Archibald Constable & Co. ;$aLondon :$bHurst, Robinson & Co.,$c1825-1833.
300 $a2 v. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aText volumes to accompany color plates etched by Selby (mostly after his own drawings) with the assistance of his brother-in-law Admiral Robert Mitford, which were first issued nineteen parts to subscribers from 1819-1833 and were subsequently bound into two folio volumes.
500 $aThe second text volume (water birds) was published in 1833 along with a second edition of vol. 1 (part first).
500 $aAtlas vols. have title: Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British ornithology. Edinburgh, London : Archibald Constable & Co., and Hurst Robinson & Co. ; Edinburgh, Printed for the proprietor, and published by W.H. Lizars ... [1819]-1834. "Although issued partly in connection with the volume of plates, under the same title (at the time of issue), text and plates were purchasable separately ... the author in his preface to the present work, that the text will constitute an independent work of reference."--Cf. Zimmer, p. 573.
505 0 $aVol. 1. Land birds -- v. 2. Water birds.
510 4 $aZimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib.,$cp. 573
583 $aextracted picklist$c20081216$zBHLEX
590 $aSCNHRB copy a made-up set: v. 1 (39088015709793) of the 1st ed., v. 2 (39088015709835) of the 2nd.
590 $aSCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p. of v. 1: Robert Hood 1840.
590 $aSCNHRB copy stamped on t.p. of both v.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [ms. acc. no.] 246288. Inscribed in ink on verso of t.p.: Chas. W. Richmond.
590 $aSCNHRB copy has bookplate in v. 2: Dr. R.L. Walker, 1896. Inscribed in ink on 2nd front free endpaper: R.L. Walker, 1896.
590 $aSCNHRB copy bound in dark blue cloth, title in gilt on spine.
650 0 $aBirds$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aBirds$zGreat Britain$vPictorial works.
700 1 $aHood, Robert,$eformer owner.$5DSI
700 1 $aRichmond, Charles Wallace,$d1868-1932,$eformer owner.$5DSI
700 1 $aWalker, R. L.,$eformer owner.$5DSI
740 02 $aPlates to Selby's Illustrations of British ornithology.
945 $aRCP/BPS ts/gh 1/20/92
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 1$i39088015709793$nlc$trare
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 2$i39088015709835$nlc$trare