Mammalia and ornithology
By: by Titian R. Peale, one of the naturalists of the Expedition ...
Series: United States Exploring Expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. ;; vol. 8
Publisher: Printed by C. Sherman
Published: 1848
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Birds.; Mammals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [v]-viii)
Half-title: United States Exploring Expedition.
"By authority of Congress"--Half-title p.
This extremely rare suppressed ed. was replaced by: Mammalogy and ornithology / by John Cassin. Philadelphia : Printed by G. Sherman, 1858.
Atlas of 84 plates (listed on p. [ix]-xi) was never published. Some of the plates, however, were used in the atlas of Cassin's work.
Also available in digital form from the Academy of Natural Sciences Library.
Haskell 27.
Braislin auction cat., Apr. 1923, item 640.