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Birds of the Pacific slope : one hundred fifty-six bird portraits painted in California and Mexico, 1853-1869
Title:
Birds of the Pacific slope : one hundred fifty-six bird portraits painted in California and Mexico, 1853-1869
ISBN:
9780910457101
Publication Information:
San Francisco : Arion Press, 1986.
Physical Description:
1 box ([5], 157 sheets) : chiefly color illustrations ; 66 cm + companion text (433 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 32 cm)
General Note:
Limited ed. of 425 copies.

"Reproducing at full scale all his surviving paintings in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, accompanied by current ornithological identifications, together with species accounts and field notes by Andrew Jackson Grayson, and a biography of the artist and naturalist by Lois Chambers Stone, contained in the companion volume."

Subtitle of companion volume: A biography of the artist & naturalist, 1818-1869; with species accounts and field notes by Andrew Jackson Grayson, and with current ornithological identifications to accompny the 156 bird portraits, all his surviving paintings from the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, reproduced as plates in the companion portfolio.

Companion volume issued in a case.
Contents:
[v.1]. A biography of the artist and naturalist, 1818-1869 by Lois Chambers Stone -- [v.2]. One hundred fifty six bird portraits painted in California and Mexico, 1853-1869.
Local Note:
FORTY PLATES HAVE BEEN FRAMED

FRAMED PRINTS ARE DISPLAYED IN OREGON STATE LIBRARY BUILDING
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