- Home
- >
- Poetry
- >
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER WILSON The American Ornithologist Also His Miscellaneous Prose Writings, Journals, Letters, Essays, Etc., Now First Collected
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER WILSON The American Ornithologist Also His Miscellaneous Prose Writings, Journals, Letters, Essays, Etc., Now First Collected
| Author | Alexander Wilson |
|---|---|
| Condition | Good |
| Jacket Condition | no d/j |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Published | John Henderson, Belfast 1844 |
| Our Ref # | 004811 |
Description
Exceptionally scarce Belfast-published collected works of the Scots-born poet who emigrated to the US in 1794 and is regarded as the founder or American ornithology and an inspiration for Audubon. Includes fascinating memoir with much on Wilson's life in America and the creation of his nine-volume masterwork, American Ornithology. Frontispiece and engraved title showing Wilson and birds of prey respectively. This, second title and contents rather spotted, but thereafter all is generally clean and bright until the last couple of pages of the glossary and rear endpaper. Block marbled to all edges. Binding tight. Former owner's name neatly to first blank. Well worn half leather with worn marbled paper. Some loss to leather titlepiece. 12mo. xxxviii + 504pp
£150.00
Other Books In This Category
Bell Harry And Other Poems
Posthumous collection in crisp, clean and bright order throughout. Illustrated two-colour title page..
£20.00
PRUSSIAN NIGHTS A Narrative Poem
Now hard to find in this first English language edition. Fep removed, but otherwise all in VG+, clea..
£35.00
LYRICS AND IDYLLS With Other Poems
First edition of first UK-published collection from Stedman, garnered from works published in the US..
£100.00
Heart's Needle
From the first printing of 1,500 copies of Snodgrass's first poetry collection which went on to win ..
£75.00
