United States Exploring Expedition. During the year 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
This is a folio natural history volume from the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes, printed in Philadelphia by C. Sherman in 1844 for Congress and the scientific public. The hand-coloured bird plates show dark crows, a grey-breasted dove on a branch, a snipe and a sandpiper, and parrots in green and red, with plain cream paper margins and labelled captions that suggest a designer could borrow their careful, naturalistic plumage detail and restrained palette.
