Natural history of New-York. Introduction [AND] Zoology of New-York, or the New-York Mammalia and introduction to the Natural History of the New-York Fauna; comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appropriate illustrations. Part I. Mammalia.

New York, NY, D. Appleton, 1842. 4to (29.3 x 25.8 cm). 188; xv, 146 pp.; 35 [2, 33] lithographed plates of which 29 in fine, original hand-colouring. Original black, embossed cloth. Spine with gilt vignette and title, front board with gilt vignette. Yellow endpapers. = The rare hand-coloured edition of this beautifully illustrated work. Plain copies are fairly common inside the U.S.A., but coloured copies, such as this one, are seldom seen anywhere. We found no auction records. The four plain plates in the mammals-section [plates 8, 19, 32, 33] show skeleton parts and are intentionally uncoloured; all plates showing living animals are finely hand-coloured. The two plates in the Introduction-part are plain, as always. This is the complete general introduction and the complete mammalian part of the Zoology section of a larger series on the natural history of New York, by James Ellsworth De Kay (1792-1851). Spine ends rubbed. As usual some scattered, marginal foxing in the text; the general title more affected; Most plates clean. A very good copy. Nissen ZBI, 1064; Sabin, 53782-53783.