CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. 1857-1921.
The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1885.
4to (281 x 207 mm). [2], [7]-198 pp. With 22 hand-colored lithographed plates and a map. Green cloth with wrapper of part one inset to upper cover, spine titles gilt, wrappers of part II-IV bound in at back. Scattered light foxing, a few plates loosening.
FIRST EDITION. One of several works by Cory on the birds of the Caribbean. Provides synonymy, description of plumage, and notes for each of the species. The wrappers of the first three parts are dated 1884, the fourth, 1885. Sitwell p 87; Wood p 300; Zimmer p 138.