On Dec 10 2010, Overstreet, Leslie wrote:
>Dear Hist-Nat-Hist colleagues,
>
> For a bibliographical project that I am contributing to, my co-authors
> and I are searching for a copy of Vieillot's "Histoire naturelle des
> oiseaux de l'Amerique Septentrionale" (Paris, 1807; folio, 2 vols.) THAT
> HAS THE ORIGINAL PART-WRAPPERS.
>
> Such a copy was cited in a published article in the 1980s but without
> any indication of its location or owner/institution, and the author of
> the article cannot now find the information in his notes or memory.
>
> According to OCLC, the work is held by the following libraries
> (excluding those I have already personally checked, namely the
> Smithsonian and the Library of Congress). We will be extremely grateful
> if anyone at these libraries/institutions can check their copy and let me
> know if the wrappers are present.
>
> California - UC-Berkeley, UCLA Connecticut - Trinity College Illinois -
> Field Museum, Northwestern Univ., Univ.Chicago, Univ.Illinois Kansas -
> Univ.Kansas Louisiana - Louisiana State Univ. Massachusetts - Boston
> Atheneum, Harvard Univ.-Mus.Comp.Zool. Michigan - Univ.Michigan Minnesota
> - Univ.Minnesota-Bio.Med. New York - American Museum of Natural History,
> Cornell Univ. Pennsylvania - Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,
> American Philosophical Society, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Canada
> - McGill Univ. Denmark - Danish National Bibl., Kongelige Bibliotek
> France - Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Museum Nationale d'Histoire
> Naturelle Germany - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Wurttembergische
> Landesbibliothek The Netherlands - Universiteit van Amsterdam United
> Kingdom - British Library, Cambridge Univ., Univ. Manchester, Oxford
> Univ.
>
> Many thanks,
> Leslie Overstreet
>
>(Ms.) Leslie K. Overstreet
>Curator of Natural-History Rare Books
>Smithsonian Institution Libraries
>
>E-mail [log in to unmask]
>Phone (202) 633-1176, -1184
>Fax (202) 633-0219
>
Leslie,
I have checked the copy here in Cambridge University Library and the
wrappers are not present. The two volumes are bound in one and I would
therefore assume that the wrappers were removed during the binding.
Sorry,
Bill Noblett.
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W.A.Noblett,
Under-Librarian,
Cambridge University Library,
West Road, Cambridge. Tel: 01223 333138
CB3 9DR Fax: 01223 333160
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