THIS ITEM IS A GENUINE ORIGINAL VINTAGE PRINT FROM THE SOURCE/DATE LISTED
Name - 18 types of Geese, Guillemots, Auks, Puffins
Date - 1878 is an assumed date as we received the prints & text with no covers or title pages. Based on a advertising broadside that was included in the lot, and the original print size of 12x15", we have to conclude that this is the 1878 First Bound Edition
Source - Birds of North America, Volume 1
By - engraved by Theodore Jasper, published by Jacob Studer
Comment - Studer bird prints are known as the “poor man’s Audubon bird prints”, that is, about as good as Audubon’s prints, but less expensive
Type - chromolithograph, full color in natural setting, blank backed
Figure Identification -
1 Painted (Emperor) Goose
2 Blue Goose
3 Spectacled Eider
4 Parasitic Jaeger
5 King Eider (Duck)
6 Thick-Billed Guillemot
7 Sooty Guillemot
8 Pigeon Guillemot
9 Kittlitz’s Guillemot
10 Temmick’s Guillemot
11 Black-Throated Guillemot
12 Whiskered Auk
13 Crested Auk
14 Parrot Auk
15 Horn-Billed Auk
16 Large-Billed Puffin
17 Horned Puffin
18 Little Auk
Size - 12x15"
Note - the line in the left border is where the protective tissue was formerly attached
Condition - Quite Nice, an upper left corner stain extending slightly into the image, but not near any of the birds
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