This is where a lot of my effort has been going lately. As soon as I got this book, I knew I had to get all the images edited and posted, as they are some of the nicest bird plates I have ever seen. The book not only has beautiful illustrations, but is historically notable because it was the first time hand-colored lithographs were used to illustrate a state bird book.   It is one of the favorite books in my library, and the scans do not even begin to do justice to the depth of color on the plates. It is a very hefty book, and the binding is fairly weak. The cover is in very good condition, though, and is intact and clean complete with the gilt picture of a bird, so I will be putting the book up for sale in my bookstore soon. While the plates have unfortunately been stamped by an overzealous Australian librarian, the book remains one of the nicer extant copies I have come across. This is largely because the cover is in such good shape, not to mention that the book is still intact (there were only 300 or so ...

I first posted the pictures from Through the Looking Glass a few years ago, and promised to update them with better versions when I got the time.  So,I have done that (the post is HERE) and am also adding similar pictures from Alice in Wonderland.  For both books I am providing both very large scale JPG (or jpeg) versions, and smaller but still useful PNG images with transparent backgrounds.  This transparency is useful for many applications.  The jpg's are available and easy to download in a number of sizes, up to a maximum of about 1800 pixels.  The PNG's are available in one size only: 584 pixels on the longest side; you will need to resize them on your own. The Wonderland Gallery is HERE.  The first item on the page is the subfolder with the PNG images. Title: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Author: Lewis Carroll Artist: John Tenniel Date Published: 1865

These images have been in my queue for posting here for some time.  I have not had a chance to edit them to the degree I desire, and as I have no idea when I will get to it I am posting the full, unedited page scans for now.  The folder is HERE Any further images posted will be in the same folder, but for now there are simply the 26 full page images. These are very nicely done and historically important chromolithographed plates from a book which was unfortunately damaged and coming apart when I acquired it.  The book, The Hawks and Owls of the United States in Their Relation to Agriculture, itself was an important study that helped to establish that, with few exceptions, hawks and owls were beneficial to farmers and not the scourge they were commonly perceived as. I have very large digital copies available for download in the gallery.  The originals have been put up for sale in my bookstore, and can be seen for sale HERE. Title: The Hawks and Owls of the United States U.S. Department of Agriculture Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy Bulletin No. 3 Prepared under the Direction of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Ornithologist, by A. K. Fisher, M.D., ...