A Natural History of the Ducks Publisher Anthony Finley Publisher Place

Publisher Anthony Finley Publisher Place Philadelphia Date Published 1825 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes Reprint No Condition Very Good Condition Description Some light scattered foxing to the text

One-half maroon-red cloth

in near fine condition

16 color photographs

(distributed by the Smithsonian Institution) Publisher Place

A Natural History of the Ducks Publisher Anthony Finley Publisher PlacePp. x, 264; xii, 409; ix, 383; ix, 489, 74 full page color plates, 28 full page black and white plates, 118 maps. One half cream cloth over gray paper covered boards, original gray slipcases, lg 4to. The 74 color plates are from paintings by Frank W. Benson, Allan Brooks, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Signatured dated 1926 of Gerrit Forbes on front endpaper of each volume. He was likely the original owner. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Publisher