WILSON (ALEXANDER)
American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, 9 vol. in 3, first edition, reissue of volume 7, 76 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alexander Lawson, George Murray, John Warnicke, and Benjamin Tanner after Wilson, list of subscribers, several plates trimmed within platemark, some foxing and offsetting, mostly affecting text, without half-titles, bookplate of Alan Francis Brooke, and H.C. Drayton, early ownership inscription of Elizabeth Gurney (1822), half morocco gilt, by J. Wright, g.e., some rubbing [Nissen IVB 992; Fine Bird Books, p.114; Anker 533; Wood, p.630; Zimmer, p.679], 4to, Philadelphia, Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1824-1814