Alexander Wilson Natural History of Birds of the United States 1832

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Mississippi Kite, Tennesee Warbler, Prairie Warbler
AWJ162 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Ring-tailed Eagle, Sea Eagle
AWJ163 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Sharp-shinned Hawk, Redstart, Yellow-rump
AWJ164 $55
Sale Price: $35
Black Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Female Baltimore Oriole, Female Towhee's Bunting
AWJ165 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Broad-winged Hawk, Chuck-wills-widow, Female Black-cap Warbler
AWJ170 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Cow Bunting, Maryland Yellow Throat, Blue Grey Flycatcher, White-eyed Flycatcher
AWJ183 $35
Sale Price: $15
Female Crow Blackbird, Orange-crowned Warbler, Lark Finch
AWJ174 $45
Sale Price: $25		 Turtle Dove, Hermit Thrush, Pine-swamp Warbler
AWJ119 $65
Sale Price: $45		 Slate coloured Hawk, Ground Dove
AWJ173 $15
Sale Price: $10
Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Rocky Mountain Anteater, Female Golden winged Warbler
AWJ177 $45
Sale Price: $25		 Fulvous or Cliff Swallow
AWJ175 $45
Sale Price: $25		 Tyrant Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Small Green Crested Flycatcher, Pe-we Flycatcher, Wood Pe-we Flycatcher
AWJ178 $45
Sale Price: $25
Great American Shrike or Butcher Bird, Pine Grossbeak, Ruby crowned Wren, Shore Lark
AWJ181 $45
Sale Price: $25		 American Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill, White-crowned Bunting, Bay-winged Bunting
AWJ190 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Canada Jay, Snow Bunting, Rusty Grakle, Purple Grakle
AWJ184 $45
Sale Price: $25
Evening Grosbeak, Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Female White-winged Grosbeak, Female Indigo Finch
AWJ192 $45
Sale Price: $25		 Turkey Buzzard, Black Vulture, Raven
AWJ199 $15
Sale Price: $10		 Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Band-tailed Pigeon
AWJ195 $45
Sale Price: $25
Pallas Dipper, Bohemian Waxwing, Pine Bullfinch
AWJ117 $65
Sale Price: $45		 Cooper's Hawk, Palm Warbler
AWJ134 $65
Sale Price: $45		 Lousiana Heron, Pied Oystercatcher,
Hooping Crane, Long-billed Curlew
AWJ116 SOLD
Lousiana Tanager, Clarks Crow, Lewis's Woodpecker
AWJ120 $65
Sale Price: $45		 Pinnated Grouse, Blue-green Warbler, Nashville Warbler
AWJ123 $65
Sale Price: $45		 Gold-winged Woodpecker, Black throated Bunting,
Blue Bird
AWJ122 $65
Sale Price: $35
Red-tailed Hawk, American Buzzard, Ash-coloured Hawk
AWJ129 $65
Sale Price: $45		 Whip-poor-will
AWJ133 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Long-eared Owl, Marsh Hawk, Swallow-tailed Hawk
AWJ131 $65
Sale Price: $45
Ruffed Grouse or Pheasant
AWJ135 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Sharp Tailed Grouse
AWJ158 $55
Sale Price: $35
Esquimaux or Eskimo Curlew EXTINCT, Red backed Snipe, Semipalmated Snipe, Marbled Godwit
AWJ143 $65
Sale Price: $45		 Black-bellied Darter, Great Northern Diver, Black-headed Gull, Little Auk
AWJ144 $45
Sale Price: $25
Red-breasted Snipe, Long-legged Avocet, Solitary Sandpiper, Yellow-shanks Snipe, Tell-tale Snipe
AWJ145 $45
Sale Price: $25		 Brant, Scoter Duck, Velvet Duck, Harlequin Duck, Dusky Duck, March Tern, Sooty Tern
AWJ146 $45
Sale Price: $25
Gadwal Duck, Eider Duck, Smew, Ruddy Duck
AWJ149 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Turnstone, Ash Coloured Sandpiper, Purre, Black billed Plover, Red breasted Sandpiper
AWJ150 $45
Sale Price: $25
Snipe, Quail or Partridge
AWJ153 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Spotted Sandpiper, Bartram's Sandpiper, Ring Plover, Sanderling Plover, Golden Plover, Killdeer Plover
AWJ161 $35
Sale Price: $15
Great Crow Blackbird
AWJ138 $65
Sale Price: $35		 Great Tern, Lesser Tern, Short-tailed Tern, Black Skimmer, Stormy Petrel
AWJ152 $55
Sale Price: $35
Female Dusky Grouse
AWJ155 $45
Sale Price: $25		 Female Cock of the Plains, Female Spotted Grouse
AWJ156 $45
Sale Price: $25
White tailed Hawk, Female Coerulean Warbler
AWJ158 $55
Sale Price: $35		 Spotted Grouse
AWJ157 $55
Sale Price: $35
   
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Alexander Wilson Natural History of Birds of the United States 1832

Alexander Wilson was born in Scotland, the son of a poor distiller, and was apprenticed as a weaver. An imaginative youth, his first love was poetry, and he soon renounced his humdrum life for the lure of adventure and prosperity in the new world. Arriving in America in 1794, he settled near the cultural mecca of the day, Philadelphia, finding work as a teacher. He met William Bartram, the American naturalist and artist, who encouraged Wilson's interest in ornithology. So inspired, Wilson taught himself to draw and embarked on the work that was not only to take the rest of his life, but also predated Audubon's Birds of America.

Wilson spent ten years of his life traveling widely in the eastern United States, discovering 26 previously unknown species. In the next hundred years, only 23 more American land birds would be identified. The first edition of American Ornithology was printed from 1808-1814 and was an outstanding contribution to the world of ornithology as the first work on American birds, printed in America. Sadly, Wilson died in 1813 before the completion of the publication and it was completed by George Ord.

This outstanding work cemented his reputation as a pioneer in American nature literature and illustration. As the late scientist and historian Dr. Elliott Coues remarked, "Perhaps no other work on ornithology of equal extent is equally free from error, and its truthfulness is illuminated by a spark of the 'fire divine'." Film director and writer Whitman Bennett, also a dealer in rare books, called Wilson's work "absolutely basic as a collector's item" and "unjustly overshadowed" by the later Audubon folios.


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