Hollis T. Ross Collection of Significant Editions || Bucknell University

A member of the Class of 1968, Mr. Hollis T. Ross graduated from the university with a degree in Mathematics. Gifts from his personal library include some of the world's finest illustrations of birds and mammals.

Selected Listing:

Abrégé d'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Vivipares et des Oiseaux. François Holandre. Chez Sanson & Compagnie, 1790.

The Birds of America. John James Audobon. Johnson Reprint Corp; Theatrum Orbus Terrarum, 1971. Fine facsimile of first folio edition.

A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains. John Gould. Letterpress by N. A. Vigors, 1832.

Figures of British Land Birds, Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick . . . . Thomas Bewick. Printed by S. Hodgson, for R. Beilby, 1800.

A History of North American Birds: Land Birds. Spencer Fullerton Baird. Little, Brown, Co., 1875.

The Mammals of North America: The Descriptions of Species Based Chiefly on the Collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution; with Eighty-Seven Plates of Original Figures . . . . Spencer Fullerton Baird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859.