London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot/Edinburgh: Stirling & Kenney, 1832. In three volumes. First Jardine edition. 8vo. cvii, (i), 408; vii, (i), 390; viii, 523 pp, including half-titles. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson on India paper in first volume and 97 hand-colored engraved plates throughout set (two used as frontispiece in second and third volumes), by W.H. Lizars, after Wilson, Titian R. Peale, and A. Rider. Three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, decorated in blind and in gilt, spines browned, boards unevenly browned; joints and extremities rubbed; rear board of first volume detached; all edges gilt; matching marbled endpapers; light offsetting from plates; repaired closed tear, top edge L4 in third volume; bookseller's ticket on rear paste-down of each volume (John Hitchman, Birmingham). From the family libraries of Americana collectors and bibliophiles Amor L. and Zachary T. Hollingsworth. Anker 534; Sabin 104598

First Jardine edition of Alexander Wilson's famous work on American birds. This edition is a reprint of Wilson's work, with notes by Scottish naturalist Sir William Jardine, with the beginning of Bonaparte's Continuation in the third volume. The plates have been re-engraved by W.H. Lizars (known, among other things, for his early work on Audubon's The Birds of America) after Wilson's drawings to a higher standard than previous editions. Notably, some plates in Bonaparte's text are after Titian Peale, son of Philadelphia portraitist, naturalist, and proprietor of the storied Philadelphia Museum, Charles Willson Peale.