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Understanding 9/11First edition
"The figures and descriptions contained in the work entitled 'The birds of America', and 'Ornithological biography ... ' having been issued in the miscellaneous manner which was thought bees adapted to the occasion ... seemed to require a systematic index, in which the nomenclature should be corrected, and the species arranged agreeably to my present views. This Synopsis, then, will afford a metholdical catalogue of all the species ... described in the works above named."--Pref., p. [v]
"Printed by Neill and Co. ..., Edinburgh"--Verso of t.p
Signatures: pi⁶ A-2G⁸·̇̇⁴
Includes bibliographical references
Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib.
extracted picklist
SCNHRB has three copies
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088000955666) has written in ink at top of t.p.: Spencer F. Baird; stamped upside down in red below title: S.F. Baird
SCNHRB c. 1 blind-stamped on t.p. above imprint: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; acession no., 227831, written in ink
SCNHRB c. 1 has four leaf gatherings of blue paper with ms. notes in ink bound between the printed gatherings; 36 leaves of blue paper (13 blank save for ruled borders) bound at end contain ms. extracts from Bonaparte's Comparative list of birds of Europe & North America (29 p.) and Richardson's List of birds of North America (11 p.)
SCNHRB c. 1 extensive pencilled notes by Baird in text margins
SCNHRB c. 1 half bound in calf and brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015712433) has bookplates of Jonathan Dwight, Jr. and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker; with Tucker collational notes on t.p. dated 8/13/30
SCNHRB c. 2 has original binding of salmon cloth with printed paper label on spine; uncut
SCNHRB c. 3 (39088015712474) blind-embossed stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [pencilled acc. no.] 172805
SCNHRB c. 3 has ms. markings in text
SCNHRB c. 3 bound in imitation brown leather, marbled edges, title in gilt on spine
"The figures and descriptions contained in the work entitled 'The birds of America', and 'Ornithological biography ... ' having been issued in the miscellaneous manner which was thought bees adapted to the occasion ... seemed to require a systematic index, in which the nomenclature should be corrected, and the species arranged agreeably to my present views. This Synopsis, then, will afford a metholdical catalogue of all the species ... described in the works above named."--Pref., p. [v]
"Printed by Neill and Co. ..., Edinburgh"--Verso of t.p
Signatures: pi⁶ A-2G⁸·̇̇⁴
Includes bibliographical references
Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib.
extracted picklist
SCNHRB has three copies
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088000955666) has written in ink at top of t.p.: Spencer F. Baird; stamped upside down in red below title: S.F. Baird
SCNHRB c. 1 blind-stamped on t.p. above imprint: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; acession no., 227831, written in ink
SCNHRB c. 1 has four leaf gatherings of blue paper with ms. notes in ink bound between the printed gatherings; 36 leaves of blue paper (13 blank save for ruled borders) bound at end contain ms. extracts from Bonaparte's Comparative list of birds of Europe & North America (29 p.) and Richardson's List of birds of North America (11 p.)
SCNHRB c. 1 extensive pencilled notes by Baird in text margins
SCNHRB c. 1 half bound in calf and brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015712433) has bookplates of Jonathan Dwight, Jr. and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker; with Tucker collational notes on t.p. dated 8/13/30
SCNHRB c. 2 has original binding of salmon cloth with printed paper label on spine; uncut
SCNHRB c. 3 (39088015712474) blind-embossed stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [pencilled acc. no.] 172805
SCNHRB c. 3 has ms. markings in text
SCNHRB c. 3 bound in imitation brown leather, marbled edges, title in gilt on spine
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