Fish and Game of the State of New York Seventh Report, 100 Color Plates by Forest, Fish and Game Commission - 1902

J. B. Lyon Company. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/None. Green cloth, gilt titles. Front hinge shaken, color frontispiece present but loose. All plates, color and b&w, present. 8 fish plates- unsigned ; 9.02 X 5.98 X 1.47 inches; 738 pages

[Alban, 1902. 534pp., including in-text illustrations, plus numerous color and black and white plates. Quarto. Publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt. Hinges cracked, cloth water-damaged. Marginal dampstain in first thirty leaves, else clean internally. Good. State of New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission report for 1901, profusely illustrated. The notable color plates include twelve birds by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, eight fish by Sherman Foote Denton (unsigned), eight leaves in autumn foliage, and various large mammals

Albany NY: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1904. 1st. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 0x0x0. Green cloth cover clean and intact with some scuffs, light smudges and wear. Interior with light wear. Pages and illustrations all clean and intact. Weakness to binding at rear hinge. Rear blank endpaper with a small hole. All plates and illustrations present, including many full page color plates - 9 Sherman Foote Denton fish plates (Albino Brook Trout, Channel Cat, Red Horse, Crappie, Goldfish, Carp, Blue Gill Sun Fish, Moon-Eye, Rock Bass), 17 Louis Agassiz Fuertes bird plates (Red-Headed Woodpecker, Northern Hairy Woodpecker, White-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker, Flicker, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Black Bellied Three-Toed Woodpecker, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Blackburnian Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Yellow-Bellied Cuckoo, Solitary Vireo, Black-Capped Chick-A-Dee / Brown Creeper, Blue Jay, American Red Crossbill, Hooded Merganser, Pintail Duck, Golden Eye Duck), and 4 mammal plates (Porcupine, Red Squirrel, Gray… Read More

Albany NY: Press of J. B. Lyon Company, 1910. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. All plates present. Some wear to page edges, including some small and closed tears, but all are present and otherwise intact. Green cloth cover with some scuffs and bumps, but intact and with clear gold titles/lettering. Tissue guard missing on frontispiece. A nice copy with clean plates. Plum Adirondack Bibliography number 2043. Please see images. 418 pages.

Albany NY: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1907. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Blue cloth cover clean and intact with some wear and scuffs to spine. Illustrations and maps all present, including many full page color plates (many fish and at least one bird), many full page monochrome plates, and a fold out map of beaver distribution and reintroduction. Plum Adirondack Bibliography number 2043. Please see images. 418 pages.

Albany NY: New York State, no date. presumed 1st edition thus . No Binding. Very Good+. 38350 PB shelf. No date, but circa 1902. Portfolio should have 100 prints, of which there are 95 loose chromo-lithographs as follows: 55 Denton prints; 51 are of fish -- one of these is foxed; 45 of these bear Denton's signature in the plates. 5 trout prints: Tahoe, rainbow, lake, steelhead or salmon trout, & brown trout. Saltwater fish: Bluefish, tautog, cunner striped bass, American shad, white perch, dogfish, weakfish, black sea bass, scup, American eel, striped bass, hickory shad. Note that some of the plates are labeled with names slightly different from the list online -- the list must have been updated from when the plates were made.Also 1 male lobster, 1 female lobster. 1 Mongolian pheasant. 1 Virginia deer. Four Oliver Kemps: moose, elk, black bear, Adirondack deer. Many bird prints by J.L. Ridgway & L. A. Fuertes. All but one fish print are in lovely clean frame-able condition.… Read More

Seventh Report from the Forest, Fish and Game Commission, a portfolio of unbound prints, undated but assumed 1902. The slipcase in green cloth, stamped on the front board as shown with this listing is rubbed, scuffed and bumped. 99 of 100 plates as issued of fish, birds and wildlife as: 52 fish by Denton (signed in the plates) 5 fish by Denton (unsigned); 1 deer by Denton (signed in the plate); 1 pheasant by Denton (signed in the plate); 1 lobster by Denton (signed in the plate). Also 12 birds by Fuertes (signed in the plate); 4 animals by Kemp (signed in the plate), 19 birds by Ridgeway (signed in the plate) and 4 birds unsigned. The plates are in good condition, more photos are available on request. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (O-N5)

Seventh Report from the Forest, Fish and Game Commission a portfolio of unbound prints, undated but assumed 1902. The slipcase in green cloth, stamped on the front board as shown with this listing is rubbed, scuffed and bumped. 100 plates as issued of fish, birds and wildlife as: 52 fish by Denton (signed in the plates) 5 fish by Denton (unsigned); 1 deer by Denton (signed in the plate); 1 pheasant by Denton (signed in the plate); 3 lobster by Denton (signed in the plate). Also 10 birds by Fuertes (signed in the plate); 4 animals by Kemp (signed in the plate), 19 birds by Ridgeway (signed in the plate) and 5 birds unsigned. The plates are in good condition, more photos are available on request. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (O-N5)