[Birds]. Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; Or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. 4 Vols. (Vol IV is a Plate volume). Phila: Porter & Coates, (nd), [ca. late 1800’s – early 1900’s]. 4to. Orig cloth. Sunned, soiled, small stains to exteriors. Hinges cracked. Vol IV has weak points in its binding (giving the plates adhesion residue along their inner edge, where they meet the binding), but the plates are otherwise near fine. 104 steel-engraved plates: Frontis, 76 plates to accompany Wilson’s American Ornithology, and 27 plates for Bonaparte’s Ornithology.