Zoology of New York; or, The New York fauna [Series: Natural history of New York]

De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth) (1792-1851) · 1842 · 336 pictures

A state-funded faunal survey of New York by James E. De Kay, issued in Albany from 1842 as part of the Natural History of New York for legislators, libraries and naturalists. Plates drawn by J. W. Hill and lithographed by Endicott of New York pair two or three specimens per sheet, birds hand-coloured over outline, fishes left in plain line, each captioned with figure numbers and set on thin washes of sand, water or grass.

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