Exotic ornithology
Subtitle: containing figures and descriptions of new or rare species of American birds
By: by Philip Lutley Sclater and Osbert Salvin
Contributors: Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898; Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, former owner
Edition: [Imperial quarto ed.].
Publisher: Bernard Quaritch
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Birds
Notes: Also issued as an Imperial folio ed.

Proof copy.

Includes bibliographical references.

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 560

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088015707771) is a proof copy, probably sent from the author to Spencer Fullerton Baird. Imperfect: lacks pts. 1-3, all t.p.'s (except for pt. 4), 12 p. at end, (?) and all plates.

SCNHRB copy has ink ms. note at head of t.p. of pt. 4: "Dupl. revise [?] for Profr. Baird"; stamped on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum, Sep 11 1885 [ms. acc. no.] 127563. Ink ms. corrections throughout text.

SCNHRB copy has ink ms. note by C. W. Richmond tipped-in before p. 33.

SCNHRB copy bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine.