James Bolton Harmonia Ruralis (1845) Bird prints

Bullfinch or Nope $150	Hedge Sparrow $150
Greenfinch $150	Greenfinch Nest & Eggs $125
Common Bunting $125 (paper loss)	Grasshopper Lark $140 (fox mark in margin)
Missel bird $150	Missel bird Nest & Eggs $125
Starling $175 (original watercolour smears in top margin)	Starling Nest & Eggs $150
Blackbird or Ouzle $100 (original watercolour smear)	King or Heath Ouzle $150
Blackcap $130	Blackbird Nest & Eggs $125
Song Thrush or Throstle $100 (original watercolour smears)	Grey Wagtail $150
Siskin or Aberdavine $150
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Bullfinch or Nope
$150

Hedge Sparrow
$150

Greenfinch
$150

Greenfinch Nest & Eggs
$125

Common Bunting
$125
(paper loss)

Grasshopper Lark
$140
(fox mark in margin)

Missel bird
$150

Missel bird Nest & Eggs
$125

Starling
$175
(original watercolour smears
in top margin)

Starling Nest & Eggs
$150

Blackbird or Ouzle
$100
(original watercolour smear)

King or Heath Ouzle
$150

Blackcap
$130

Blackbird Nest & Eggs
$125

Song Thrush or Throstle
$100
(original watercolour smears)

Grey Wagtail
$150

Siskin or Aberdavine

$150

Antique Bird Prints home

We are delighted to offer these hand colored engravings from the 1845 edition of James Bolton’s "Harmonia Ruralis; Or, An Essay Towards a Natural History of British Song Birds: Illustrated with Figures, the Size of Life, of the Birds, Male and Female, in Their Most Natural Attitudes; Their Nests and Eggs, Food, Favorite Plants, shrubs, Trees &c. &c. Faithfully drawn, Engraved, and colored after Nature."

James Bolton 1733-1799 was an English painter, illustrator & naturalist who lived around Halifax for his entire life. He was an avid student of flora & fauna of the field and published a book on ferns & another on fungi before creating what is surely his masterpiece, the Harmonia Ruralis. The original drawings for this work were on vellum & two are still in the collection of the Earl of Derby.

References include: Nissen IVB 115; Zimmer p. 64; Wood p. 247; Mengel 310