The Berks History Center, in Reading, PA.
(Donated by Valerie Malmberg, Greshville Antiques and Fine Arts in Boyertown, PA)

Yes

updated 2/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 4/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 10/15
(Bert Filemyr)
---
updated 5/16
(Bill Uhrich)

Original owner Lillie M. Stone. Signed by Witmer Stone
---
Owned by Will Myers on 5/00. He is now deceased and the whereabouts of this volume is unknown. (2/06 Alan Simon - e-mail correspendence with Lynne Flaccus)
---
Signed by Witmer Stone and all of the illustrators
---
From the Berks History Center on 10/5/15 "I am writing to notify you that we recently purchased/ were donated Set Number 1 of Bird Studies of Old Cape May from Valerie Malmberg with Greshville Antiques and fine art in Boyertown, PA. In addition to the 2 Volume set, Ms. Malmberg also donated the original watercolor Earl Poole painted of the Fish Hawk, used as the frontispiece in Volume I. It will be put on exhibit in the Henry Janssen Library."
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Click Here for an article on this set by Bill Uhrich that appeared in the Reading Eagle of 5/16/2016
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Click Here for an article on this set by Bill Uhrich that appeared in the Reading Eagle of 5/22/2016

Academy of Natural Sciences

Yes

Updated 3/18
(Bill Uhrich)

Joe Poole donated his father Earl’s remaining artwork and Set No. 2 to the Academy, according to Bob Peck and Jennifer Vess. Inherited from Earl Poole

Bill Uhrich

No

Updated 3/18
(Bill Uhrich)

"On March 1, I bought the Bird Studies at Old Cape May Set No. 3 that belonged to Berks artist Conrad Roland from Larry Ward of Museum Books in West Reading, Pa. He sold it for a collector who wishes to remain anonymous and who had bought it at auction over 30 years ago."

?*

Yes

5/00
---
updated 2/06
(Bert Filemyr)

Phillip B. Street owned this volume on 5/00. Inherited from J. Fletcher Street. He is now deceased and the whereabouts of this volume is unknown. (2/06 Bert Filemyr)

Morristown/Morris Township Public Library, NJ

No

1/04

Signed by Stone to Charles A. Urner

Bob Barber

Yes

5/00

Original owner Julian Potter

Lynne Flaccus

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Original owner Arthur C. Emlen

Marvin Hyett

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Original owner Richard Bishop

Louise Zemaitis and Michael O’Brien

Yes

5/00

Original owner Norman McDonald

Bert Filemyr

No

9/15
(Bert Filemyr)

Original owner John Bartram.
The inscription from Stone thanks John for his help.
It also contains 13 signatures of people who helped on the project.
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Inscribed by the author, " To John Bartram/ in grateful appreciation of his cooperation in the making of Bird Studies at Old Cape May/ Witmer Stone." Also signed by all five illustrators and everyone who was involved in the project. 13 signatures in total. Also includes two signed letters from the author to Mr. Bartram. The first asking for illustrations or photos of birds/nests in the South New Jersey region. And the second, informs Mr. Bartram that the printer has promised Mr. Stone a few copies of the book and Mr. Stone is inviting Bartram to his house along with everyone else who worked on the project for an informal gathering.

Joseph M. Wunderle Jr.

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Original owner Horace G. Wunderle

Dale Twining

Yes

5/00

Signed by Witmer Stone

(unknown)

Yes

5/00
---
updated 12/07
(Bert Filemyr)

Original owner Edward J. Stuart, Jr. Signed by Witmer Stone
---
Owned by David Cutler up until the time of his death in 2004

Harry Armistead

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Original owner Charles M.B. Cadwalader. Signed by Witmer Stone

Lee Morgan

No

3/06
(Alan Simon

Inscribed by Witmer Stone to Harold Green, December 16, 1937

Cornell University

Yes

5/00

Original owner F.R. Keating

Cape May Bird Observatory

Yes

5/00

Original owner Roy Imsick

Brooke Meanley

Yes

5/00

Original owner Fred Schmid. Signed by Witmer Stone

I. Lehr Brisbin, Jr.

No

5/06
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed by Witmer Stone to William Bolton Cook - December 16, 1937

Dave Cutler

Yes

5/00

Original owner Winifred H. Russiter. Signed by Witmer Stone

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed "To my friend Wm. E. Roberts. Witmer Stone. Dec. 16, 1937." 

Chris Rider (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

Signed by Stone to F.V. Hebard

Anonymous

No

5/00

Original Owner Harold Brooke Stabler

Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor

Yes

5/00

 

Wallace Graham

No

1/04

Inscribed by Witmer Stone to William A. Shryock - December 16, 1937. Also has various printed material related to the book and William A. Shryock

American Philosophical Society

No

1/07

Academy of Natural Sciences

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon - email from Academy of Natural Sciences librarian)

Given to Academy by Witmer Stone December 14, 1937

Keith Seager

No

5/00

Received from Alan Brady

Listed for sale on Amazon.com

No

10/12
(Scott McConnell

Inscribed,
signed and dated "for Jacqueline P. Evans by her friend Witmer Stone Dec.
20, 1937."

Natural History Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Roger and Kathy Horn
(Formerly owned by Alan Brady)

No

10/14

Signed by Stone 12/16/1937

Dr. Edward Marshall
Philadelphia, PA

No

1/17

Given to Edward Wayne Marshall, Jr. M.D by Stone and signed on December 16, 1937

St. Joseph's University, PA

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Volume I has been rebound

Listed for sale on Amazon.com

Yes

3/16
(Dan Larro) 

Original owner Philip C. Walton, later owned by Miriam Ward.
"This set further inscribed by the author and dated June, 1938 on the half-title of Volume I."

Listed for sale on Amazon.com

No

10/12
(Scott McConnell

 

Offered for sale by Between the Books Rare Books Sellers, Gloucester City NJ, April 2010

No

4/10
(Dave Long)

"Bookplate in each volume, else fine. Copy number 112 of
1400 sets. This copy Inscribed in Volume One by the author in the year of publication: “To my friend Francis R. Cope,
Jr. with the regards of Witmer Stone. Dec. 16, 1937.” The inscription has been copied in the recipient’s hand in Volume
Two." - from sale listing

Dorry Larson

No

5/00

Inscribed by Stone to Daniel Hechler

Dieter Schierenberg BV (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Cape May Bird Observatory

Yes

5/00 

 

Memorial Library of Radnor Township

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Thomas Macaluso Rare and Fine Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Stone

Inscribed by the author

Anne Biddle Pratt

No

2/07
(Anne Biddle Pratt)

Owned at one timeby Mr and Mrs Henry Carvill Lewis, of Chestnut Hill. Henry Lewis's sister Fredrika, was married to Herbert Brown, one of Stone's illustrators. Anne Biddle Pratt's grandmother's sister, Mrs. Samuel Hinds Thomas, of The Roost in Torresdale, was the original owner. Inscribed " for Mrs. Samuel Hinds Thomas by Witmer Stone, December 27, 1937."

Natural History Books (Commercial Book Seller)

No

4/08
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed "To my friend, John A. Gillespie, with the regards of Witmer Stone"

Cornell University

Yes

5/00 

 

University of Pennsylvania

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)
11/15
(Scott McConnell)

 There is Stone correspondence about sending this copy to the University of Pennsylvania. A UP librarian in 2012 reported, "According to our system, it remains lost."

Marria O'Malley Walsh
Pottsville, PA

No

5/05

Inscribed To Edward P. Thatcher with regards of Witmer Stone. Dec 16, 1937

Brian Moscatello

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Original owner Edward J. White

Murray Mittenhoff

No

5/00

 

anonymous

No

5/16
(Bert Filemyr)

Owned by a person who lives in Cape May, NJ

Winston C. Sheppard

No

5/00

Inscribed to Sheppard by Stone 12/19/1937

Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor

Yes

5/00 

Original owner C. Brooke Worth

Bob Rufe

No

8/05

Original owner, John D. Carter

Richard W. Coles

Yes

5/00

Original owner Hugh Exton Stone

Dr. Edward Marshall
Philadelphia, PA

No

1/17

Given to Edward Wayne Marshall, Sr. by Stone and signed on December 16, 1937

Frank West

Yes

5/00 

Previously owned by Phil Livingston, possible original owner

American Museum of Natural History

Yes

5/00

Original owner Frank Chapman

Academy of Natural Sciences

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon - email from Academy of Natural Sciences librarian)

Sandy Sherman's research: Original owner Horace Groskin
---
Updated by Alan Simon 3/06: Given to the Academy by Original owner, Dr. and Mrs. H. Radclyffe Roberts, 1992

Connie Goldman

Yes

5/00 
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)
---
updated 4/07
(Bert Filemyr)

Previously owned by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. Sold at the DVOC Book Auction 4/5/07

Brian Logan

Yes

5/00

Original owner Nelson Pumyea

University of Michigan/ Wilson Ornithological Society Library

Yes

5/00 

Original owner Max Minor Peet

Listed for sale on Amazon.com

No

3/16
(Dan Larro)

"Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Stone"

Listed for sale on Amazon.com

No

10/12
(Scott McConnell)

Dino Fiabane

Yes

5/00
-------
updated 9/11
(Dino Fiabane)
-------
updated 10/11
(Dino Fiabane)

Original owner Richard DeCou
Owned later by Cornell University
9/11 - available at Appledore Books.
A bookplate has the logo of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and indicates that the book was received from Mr. Frank A. Scott.

Sandy Brethwaite

No

9/11
-------
Updated 11/11
(Scott McConnell)

Sandy Brethwaite is the daughter of former DVOC member Kate Brethwaite.
Original owner Anna W. Nock. Signed 5/9/38

Glen E. Woolfenden

Yes

5/00 ---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Historical Society of Haddonfield

No

11/10
(Scott McConnell)

Originally owned by Samuel N. Rhoads

Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn., Amsterdam (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

UNC-Wilmington Library

Yes

5/00

Original owner John W. Cadbury III

Robert Elwell Sr.

No

11/15
(Scott McConnell)

Buteo Books

No

11/09

Listed for sale in November 2009

Scott McConnell

No

9/14

Written in the half-title page "Charles Evans, Cinnaminson, N.J., Dec. 26th, 1937. Drawings by E. L. Poole, excellent. Drawings by C. Roland, heavy and not pleasing in some cases. H. Brown [same comments as under Roland]. This book while most valuable should have been condensed."

Ocean County Library (Toms River Branch)

Yes

5/00 

 

Kenyon Gibson, Chiswick, London

No

6/04

Inscribed to Frank Stone
on 29 March, 1938. Acquired from a NYC bookdealer, David Bergman, in 1998, when the collection of James G. Suthgard, author of "Jungle, Pea, and Spurfowl of the World" was purchased.

California State University - Northridge

No

5/00

Signed by Stone

Flora and Fauna Book Store, Seattle (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

University of Colorado at Boulder Science Library

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed in Volume I: "Inscribed for Fred.k C. Lincoln with the regards of his friend Witmer Stone"

Wonder Book and Video (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Robert Kranefeld
Pennsauken, N.J.

No

1/13
(Bert Filemyr)

Purchased on 01/10/13
from Stone Soup Books of Camden, Maine.
The books are inscribed: To Francis C. Stokes January 7, 1957

Fitchburg State University, MA

No

5/00

 

Free Public Library of Philadelphia, PA

Yes

5/00 

 

Free Public Library of Philadelphia, PA

Yes

5/00 

 

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, PA

No

5/00

Added to collection on 1/19/1938

Moorestown Library, NJ

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

.

Princeton University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Enoch Pratt Free Library, MD

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

.

William Paterson University Cheng Library, NJ

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed for Mrs. John M. Dredger (?) with the regards of Witmer Stone, April 28, 1935.

David and Margaret Rutherford

No

12/12
(Scott McConnell)

Original owners Drew and Olive Courtney (Margaret's parents)

Z & Z Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed/signed by Witmer Stone

Robert Horton

No

12/06
(Robert Horton)

The inscription reads,
"Inscribed for Richard Erskine with the regards of his friend Witmer Stone" It is dated, "Jan. 17, 1938".
Richard Erskine is listed as a member of the DVOC in the book. There is a reference to Richard Erskine and his sighting of a Glaucous Gull, on page 524.

Seton Hall University, McLaughlin Library

No

5/00

Inscribed by Witmer Stone to Isaac P. Miller 1/27/1938

Charles Keller

No

12/08
(Bill Murphy)

"Inscribed for J. Lawrence Stone with the kind regards of his cousin.
(signed) Witmer Stone, Apr. 7, 1938."

Henry West, a very influential Indiana birder, bought the set from Acres of Books in Cincinnati in 1955 for $15 -- the receipt is in Vol. 1. When Henry West died five years ago, Charlie Keller bought Henry's book collection.

Samuel H. Dyke

Yes

5/00

(Sherman article incorrectly lists this copy as #279)

Library of Congress

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. Amsterdam (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

West Chester University

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Purchased in 2002 from the estate of Paul A. Rodebaugh

Rutgers University (Dana Library)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Rutgers University (Dana Library)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Edith F. Andrews

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

(Sherman Article incorrectly lists this copy as #388)

Sandy Brethwaite

No

9/11
------
Updated 11/11
(Scott McConnell)

Sandy Brethwaite is the daughter of former DVOC member Kate Brethwaite.
Original owner Mrs. Frank W. Cary. Signed 1/28/38

Karen Fox

No

6/07
(Karen Fox)

Received as a gift in 1982 from a friend who purchased it at a book sale in Aiken, South Carolina. No inscription.

Harris Cooperman

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn., Amsterdam (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

Ocean County (NJ) Library (Toms River Branch)

Yes 

5/00
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Rowan University Stewart Collection

No

5/00

 

Rick Radis

No

10/12
(Bert Filemyr)

Given to Rick Radis by George McCoy in the late 1970s. George grew up in Philadelphia, his family had a summer place in Stone Harbor, and it was his mother's set, which he had no interest in keeping; so he gave it to Rick along with a boxful of Stone's earlier publications on birds, insects, and mammals; and 2 copies of Plants of Southern New Jersey which, as a botanist, Rick treasures and use frequently. Rick remembers George telling him that his mother knew WS in some connection.

University of Tennessee

No

5/00

 

Remington Youngman

No

2/05

Inherited from (Aunt) Priscilla Presbrey, Little Falls, N J

College of New Jersey

No

5/00
---
confirmed
2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Alan Simon

No

2/06
----
Updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)

Original owner Compton Crook 

Virginia Commonwealth University

No

5/00

 

Newark Museum

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Purchased from DVOC in Nov 1938

Iowa State University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Second Story Books, Rockville MD (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

Cornell University

Yes

5/00

 

Crosslands Community (PA) Nature Center

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Donald S. Heintzelman Wildlife Library at the Wildlife Information Center, Inc.

No

6/04

 

Jeff Holt

No

11/03

Has "Theodora Nelson, 2695 Heath Ave., Bronx" written in each volume

James Farley, Fogelsville, PA

No

11/05

Discard of the Santa Monica Public Library

A. Parker's Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Volume II only

Listed for sale on Amazon.com

No

10/12
(Scott McConnell

?

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Sold at Freedman's Auction 5/20/04

Dartmouth College

No

5/00

 

Roger Tory Peterson Institute

Yes

5/00

Gift from National Geographic Society

Cumberland County (NJ) Library

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 5/06
(Alan Simon) 

 

Chester County Library (West Chester)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Sussex County Mail Library, NJ

No

3/04

Original owner (?), Dr. H.V. Coes

Alan Simon

No

11/09

Purchased from McCoy's Rare Books 11/09

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Purchased in 1966

No

10/12
(Scott McConnell)

Offered on e-Bay and Amazon
10/12

Rockport Public Library, NY

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

McGill University

No

5/00

Purchased from DVOC in 1938

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (PA)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

University of Missouri - Columbia

No

5/00

 

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

No

5/00

 

State University of New York at Buffalo

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Anita vanHeeswyk

No

5/14

Purchased from Baldwin’s Book Barn, West Chester, Pa.

Barbara Nuessle

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Inscribed by Stone to Mrs. Sara Kelly

Chris Herz

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Original owner J. Southgate, Y. Hoyt

I. Lehr Brisbin Jr.

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

(Name withheld at owners request)

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Originally owned by Frank Morton Jones

Listed on Amazon.com

No

3/16
(Dan Larro)

"Loosely inserted is an autograph letter from the author inscribing this copy to a friend of many years and explaining that he could not inscribe the book itself as they are sent directly from elsewhere."

Alan Simon

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed "Abe S. Margolin from Maurice + Ruth Feb 1938, Abe S. Margolin stamped on page edges of both volumes

George A. Clark, Jr.

No

5/00

Inherited from Dr. Henry Fox (DVOC member and acknowledged in Volume 1 on page xii)

Cape May Bird Observatory, NJ

Yes

5/00

 

unknown

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 5/06
(Alan Simon)

Sold 4/06 by Maggs Bros. Ltd. (Commercial Book Dealer) to unknown buyer

University of Kansas

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

The Chatham Bookseller
(Commercial Book Dealer)

No

4/08
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed and Signed By the author. The inscription is on a piece of paper which is laid in.

Alan Simon

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Pershing B. Hofslund stamp and bookplate on half-title page

Buteo Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

University of California at Berkeley (Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library)

No

5/00
---
confirmed
2/06
(Alan Simon)

Likely purchased new as circulation records indicate first loan in April, 1939

Theodore H. Koundakjian

No

5/00

 

Frank Springer, Jr.

No

5/00

 

Occidental College Library, CA

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, NY

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Texas A&M University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Loretta Dunne

No

1/06

Purchased from an antiquarian bookstore in Haddonfield, NJ

Commonwealth Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

8/07
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed and signed by Stone

Mount Mercy College

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Erica Brendel

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Oxford University (UK) Alexander Library

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH

No

5/00

 

Roger Tory Peterson Institute

Yes

5/00 

Original owner Roger Tory Peterson

Peter Saenger

No

5/00

Owns Volume II only

Yale University

No

5/00

 

University of Louisville - Ekstrom Library

No

5/00

 

Buffalo and Erie College

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Vernon Kleen

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Owner as of 5/00 - May longer own. Prior owner Dr. Harvey I. Fisher, former Editor of Auk

Miami (OH) University - Brill Science Library

No

5/00

 

Olin Allen

Yes

5/00 
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Camden County Library

Yes

5/00 

Original owner Francis Beach White

Eastern Mennonite University - Sadie A. Hartzell Library

No

5/00

 

Maria Mitchell Association (Nantucket, MA)

No

4/06
(Alan Simon)

George Armistead

No

9/14

George's father, Henry Armistead, purchased it at the Unicorn Bookstore in Trappe, MD, about 2010.

Lawrence University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Natural History Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

8/07
(Alan Simon)

Colorado State University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Ocean City (NJ) Public Library

No

9/04
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Bill Uhrich

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Bert Filemyr

No

11/02

Has bookplate of "Jean and Gordon Hillgartner" in each volume

(unknown)

No

11/15
(Scott McConnell)

Click Here for correspondence about this copy.

Peter J. Federici

Yes

5/00

 

Alan Simon

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Listed on eBay 9/16

No

Owners name and date written in both volumes, Mildred Snaffle

Ohio University, Athens, OH

No

5/00

 

Camden County Historical Society

No

5/00

 

Alan Simon

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Griswold Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Paul and Glenna Schwalbe

Yes

5/00 
confirmed 7/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Bob Archer

No

4/10

Previous owners, Elizabeth Archer Guthrie (Former Board member National Audubon Society) and Joy Archer. From Bob Archer (4/10) "My aunt, Joy Archer, passed away a few years back. Elizabeth Archer was my greataunt and my grandfather, Morse Archer, joined your club in 1949. I grew up in South Jersey and have birded since I was 4 yrs old."

Buffalo Museum of Science Research Library

No

5/00

 

Cleveland Health Sciences Library

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

San Diego Natural History Museum

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Franklin and Marshall College

No

5/00

 

College of Charleston

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V, Amsterdam (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Available since 5/00

University of Connecticut Library

Yes

5/00 

Original owner Edwin Way Teale

Morton Arboretum

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Mather Memorial Library

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Christine Blinn

No

5/00

 

Paul G. Rodewald

No

8/07
(Paul G. Rodewald)

Purchased at a used book store somewhere in central NJ about 2000.

Deborah Barrett

No

3/04

Purchased 12/03 from Buteo Books. Inscribed "JJ Murray, 1940" and the bracketed name "[Miss Sallie Preston]"

Bill Maher

No

10/15
(Scott McConnell)

Listed on eBay
HillmanArt.com

No

7/14
(Dan Larro)

eBay description includes: These are 2 Original hard cover Volumes of Witmer Stone's "Bird Studies at Old Cape May". 8" X 10 5/8" . 1st Volume (only) has separation of inside binding to endpapers.Slight movement of covers. Easily repaired but should be done by professional binder so as not to lessen value. Other than that, ALL Pages are tight to the binding, both volumes are in excellent to good condition, covers have normal wear for books from 1937. Published by Delaware Valley Ornithological Society. Some light foxing, tissue covers for color frontis foxed as well. This is number 679 of the First Edition of 1400. These volumes include migration arrival dates for birds passing through or arriving into Cape May County, and include nesting info on local species.
Earl LPool's pen and ink illustrations are some of his best, or any artist's rendition of birds in this medium.

Alan Simon

No

3/04
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)
-----
Updated 5/06 (Alan Simon

Purchased by Alan Simon from Donald H. Messersmith
----
Inherited by Donald H. Messersmith from Orville W. Crowder of Crowder Nature Tours (later known as World Nature Tours)

Shirley Gracie

No

10/04

 

Arcadia (Beaver) College - Eugenia Fuller Atwood Library, PA

No

5/00

Purchased new from the DVOC in 1940

Dr. Beverly S. Ridgely

Yes

5/00 

 

Pat and Clay Sutton

Yes

3/04

Previously owned by Henri & Rebecca Marceau, possibly original owners

R.E. Heinly

No

9/14

Purchased at a store in Cape May about 2004

Stephen Hult

No

8/05
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Purchased on e-Bay

Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

No

5/00

Original Owner John Grey

John E. Hoye

No

3/04

 

William Penn Charter School

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

American Museum of Natural History

Yes

5/00 

Previously owned by Wesley "Bud" Lanyon. Signed by Witmer Stone and Lillie M Stone on October 21, 1938

Alan Simon

No

6/04
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 7/07
(Alan Simon)

Originally Volume II only, Volume I added 7/07
---
Previously owned by Bob Rufe

Cape May County Library, NJ (Headquarters)

No

1/04
---
confirmed
2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

?*

Yes

5/00 
---
Updated
2/06
(Bert Filemyr)

Owned by Don Eckelberry on 5/00. He is now deceased and the whereabouts of this volume is unknown. (2/06 Bert Filemyr) 

Mike Jacobs

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)  

 

University of Wisconsin, Manitowoc

No

5/00 

 

Alcuin Books, Ltd. (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Faith Ellen Lindley Smith

No

1/14
(Faith Ellen Lindley Smith)

Originally purchased by or for the late Myrtle Helen Till Lindley of Philadelphia. It is now in the possession, Faith Ellen Lindley Smith, her daughter of Spotsylvania VA.

Royal Ontario Museum Library, Toronto, Ontario

No

7/07
(Arthur Smith
Acting Manager, Library & Archives
Royal Ontario Museum )

Donated by James H. Fleming

Helen McWilliams

No

5/00 

 

Being offered for sale by The Old Print Shop, Inc., 150 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016

No

1/06

 

California State University East Bay (Library)

No

5/00 
---
confirmed
2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

NJ Audubon's Plainsboro Preserve

No

12/08
(Bob Horton)

This was donated to the Preserve. There is no inscription.

James M. Woolfenden

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)  

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Main Library)

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Yesteryear Shoppe (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Inscribed "For May J. Cooke
with the kind regards of her friend Witmer Stone"

Bernice and Joseph Koplin

No

11/05

Inscribed to Charlotte Rutherford Lengerd (legibility uncertain) with the kind regards of Witmer Stone, Cape May, Sept. 3, 1938".

Peter Anthony

No

10/13
(Bert Filemyr)

Inscribed for Peter Anthony's grandmother, Mrs. J. Franklin Anthony, with the kind regards of Witmer Stone, Cape May, August 1, 1938. Additionally Herbert and Fredrika Brown signed it.

Alan Simon

No

4/08
(Alan Simon)

"Inscribed for Herbert L. Coggins with sincere regards and in memory of many "bird days" together by his friend Witmer Stone. Cape May N.J., July 20, 1938."

Dick Wood

No

4/06 (email from owner)

Purchased in the 1970 from Harding's shop in Wells, Maine

unknown

No

4/08
(Alan Simon)

Purchased on ebay 06 Jan 2008 by buyer 'gefendi'
-----------
Previously owned by J. Addison Young
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Virginia Tech University, VA

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Mabel and Carl Eschleman

No

10/09
(via Bill Uhrich)

A gift to the Eshelmans from the original owner, Byron Nunemacher. Byron was a friend of Poole's and often accompanied him birding. Byron taught piano to the Eschleman's son, Jeff, in the mid-1960s and gave the set to Carl because Carl was interested in birdwatching. The book is inscribed and signed in each hand:

For Byron Nunemacher
With the regards of
Witmer Stone
Earl L. Poole
Conrad Roland

Feb. 1, 1938

David Allen Sibley

Yes

5/00 

Previously owned by Dr. Eugene Odum, possibly original owner

Marshall University, Huntington, WV

No

5/00
---
confirmed 2/06
(Alan Simon)  

 

Bob Rufe

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

****(see below)

No

5/00

Originally owned by John J. Spencer and inscribed by Stone

Montclair Public Library, NJ

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Enoch Pratt (MD) Free Library

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Rutgers University Alexander Library

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Volume II only

Newark Library, Newark, NJ

No

5/00 

Purchased from DVOC February 1938

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (David W. Mullins Library)

No

5/00
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Bill Cathcart

No

1/05

Carries the stamp of John D. Meyer, Pittsburgh, April 7, 1938, under the #832 on the last page of volume 2.

Alan Johnson

No

8/06

Bought from a Haddonfield bookseller in early 1990’s. It is signed by a previous owner, Earl W. R???
Click Here for image
11/09 note from Bill Uhrich - "To solve the previous owner's mystery name: it's Earl W. Rollman. He was a Reading pastor who had a number of classic ornithology texts, including Birds of Massachusetts - which I saw at a Lancaster bookseller - Chestnut Street Books- several years ago. I didn't buy it because I already owned the set. I bought several of Rollman's books that I'd found in Lancaster bookstores, including Chapman's Birds of Eastern North America and Warblers of North America and Griscom's Birds of the New York City Region, which I have at my desk here and can confirm the signature. He appeared to be more of an armchair ornithologist, for he didn't make any contributions to Berks records, as Poole's 1947 A Half Century of Bird Life in Berks County Pennsylvania does not list him as a contributor among the bird students of the day. I am surprised at the 1947 date of the Bird Studies volumes, as the books of his I have are dated from 1925 and 1926.

Wes Biggs

No

3/13
(Wes Biggs)

Purchased from Marco / Auger Down Books, who had purchased the set from Freedman's Auction House in Philadelphia.

Janes Cummins Bookseller (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)

From Alan Simon (3/06)" "The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville incorrectly reported owning #839, when in fact this copy is currently for sale by James Cummins. UAF owns copy #829"

Alan Simon

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Label and boookplate of previous owner Joan K. Simonin

Anne Ewing

No

5/00 

 

Paul and Glenna Schwalbe

Yes

5/00 
confirmed 7/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Judy Ray Bouchard

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Purchased on eBay

University of Colorado at Boulder Science Library

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Station, Laurel, MD

No

5/00 

 

Cleveland Public Library, OH

No

5/00 

 

Cape May County Library, NJ (Lower Cape Branch)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Confirmed 4/2013 by Scott McConnell

Alan Simon

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)
---
updated 7/07 (Alan Simon)

Purchased from Book Revue (Commercial Book Dealer)

Bruce Di Labio

Yes

5/00  
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Previously owned by Jim Merritt, possibly original owner

Valerie Malmberg

No

5/00
---
updated 4/06 (Alan Simon)

Auctioned in 2/00 by T. Glen Horst & Sons Auction House. Ephrata PA

Wofford College, Spartanburg SC

No

5/00

 

Bowdoin College, ME

No

Bowling Green State University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Greg Toffic

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

William L. Murphy

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)  

 

Joe Swertinski

No

4/07
(Joe Swertinski)

Previously owned by Irv Zeidman (up to 4/07) 

University of Minnesota

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Fred Long

No

5/00

 

Alan Simon

No

2/06

 

Cape May Historical and Genealogical Society

Yes

5/00 

Confirmed 4/2013 by Scott McConnell

Lois Gebhardt

No

5/00 

 

Vera Enterprises LLC /VeraBook (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

7/06
(Alan Simon)

Eastern University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Eclectic Collectibles (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Damon Noe

No

12/07
(Bert Filemyr)

Purchased on e-Bay 12/07

Dick Bell

Yes

5/00  

Previously owned by Bob Sehl, possible original owner

Bob Rufe

Yes

5/04 

Previously owned by George Reynard

N.C. State University D. H. Hill Library

No

5/00 

 

Bruce Adams

No

5/00

 

Darius L. Ecker

No

5/00

 

Mary Jane Mannherz

Yes

10/04 

Previously owned by Sandy Sherman, Gene Stern (possibly original owner)

Scott McConnell

No

8/05

Previously owned by Charlie Wonderly

Alan Simon

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Cape May County Library, NJ (Headquarters)

No

1/04
---
confirmed
2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Delaware County Institute of Science

No

5/00

 

Miami University, FL

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

American Museum of Natural History

Yes

5/00 

 

Cape May County Library, NJ (Headquarters)

No

1/04
---
confirmed
2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Cape May County Library, NJ (Upper Cape Branch)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Pete Dunne

No

5/00

 

Laurie Larsen

No

11/09

No inscription or ownership mark to indicate previous possession; bought from a dealer in the 1980's by James M. Williams.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Natural History Library)

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Listed for sale by Buteo Books

No

5/00 
-------
10/12 (Scott McConnell)

 

John Miller

Yes

5/00

Previously owned by Charles Price, possible original owner

Kean University

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Previously owned by Jack E. Boucher

Karl and Judy Lukens

No

12/03

 

University of South Dakota

No

5/00 

 

Wallace Graham

No

1/04

 

Public Library of Nashville

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Karen Smith

No

1/07
(Karen Smith)

Offered for sale on E-bay late December 2006
------------------
Purchased 1/07 by Karen Smith
-------------------
Once owned by a "Loren D. Ward" who wrote his or her name in the book in 1946. Possibly from upstate New York

New Jersey State Library (Trenton)

No

1/04

 

Robert F. Andrle

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)  

 

University of Akron, OH

No

5/00 

 

Louis Beck

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)  

  

Princeton Antiques Bookshop (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Ed Finkel

No

5/00

Purchased new from DVOC

National Museum of Natural History Library (Smithsonian)

No

5/00 
---
confirmed 2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

University of California at Santa Cruz

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Cape May Bird Observatory

Yes

5/00 

 

Harry A. Sprague Library at Montclair State University

Yes

5/00 

Previously owned by d’Arcy Northwood, possibly original owner

Buteo Books
(Commercial Book Dealer)

No

8/11

 

Alan Simon

No

5/00
Updated 12/15

Bob Rife reports on 4/15 that he has "on good authority that Alan Simon bought Howard Brokaw's copy 1068." As of 12/14, listed on eBay. "Original Set from Blue Heron Farm Library. From the private collection of birding enthusiast, and conservationist, Howard Brokaw. Excellent Condition - Tight binding, Bright Colors" 

Temple University
*** (see note below)

No

12/03
---
confirmed
2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

University of Montana at Missoula

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Robert E. Cook

No

5/00

 

Central Michigan University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Alan Crawford

No

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Purchased new from DVOC (?)

Alan Simon

No

5/00
---
Updated 7/07
(Alan Simon)

Previously owed by  Dick Thorsell

Moravian College, PA

No

5/00

 

Public Library of Nashville

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Lewis T. Boyd

No

3/13

Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA

No

5/00

 

Alice Barry

No

5/00

 

Phyllis C. Reynolds

No

5/00

 

Alan Simon

No

5/00
---
Updated 3/06
(Alan Simon)

Original owner Riley Bates 

For sale on eBay

No

9/14
(Dan Larro)

"There is 1114 on ebay this week, in Item Location: Sun Valley, Nevada, United States"

Cape May Historical and Genealogical Society

No

5/00

 

John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, PA

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Jennifer Jacobs Zeigler

Yes

2/17
(Jennifer Jacobs Zeigler)

Original owner was Joe Jacobs, passed on to Winifred Jacobs (his wife), now with Jennifer Jacobs Zeigler (their daughter)

Alan Simon

No

2/06

 

Cape May County Library, NJ (Cape May City Branch)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Ocean County Library, NJ (Stafford Branch)

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06
Alan Simon

 

Ward Dasey

Yes

5/00

Original owner Ed Manners

Buteo Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

1/04

Offered for sale - $150

Darrell N. Middleton

No

1/09

"I purchased this at the Academy of Natural Sciences as a very young teenager while attending a meeting of the DVOC with a gentleman named Ed Manners and William Middleton. (no close relative) Actually I may have purchased the book later during a visit to the Academy since as I recall the meetings were held when the desk was not open.
Despite the age of the volumes, they are in mint condition since I have always valued them highly and kept them in a closed bookcase. I have always wondered whether Mrs. Stone (nee Lafferty) is an extended family member of my Mother, Anna E. Lafferty."
from Darrell N. Middleton

N.C. State University - D. H. Hill Library

No

5/00

 

anonymous

No

5/16
(Bert Filemyr)

Owned by a person who lives in Cape May, NJ

Herbert J. Hodges

No

5/00

 

Buteo Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Yes

5/00 

 

John Yrizzary

No

5/00

 

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary

No

5/00

 

Moorestown Friends School (NJ)

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Dave Cutler

Yes

5/00 

Original owner Carl Callopy

Schuykill Center for Environmental Education

Yes

5/00

 

Sandy Komito

No

3/04

 

Thomas Macaluso Used and Rare Books, Kennett Square, PA

No

11/09

Listed for sale at $275

Eric Carlson

No

5/00

 

University of Iowa

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

New York Public Library

No

5/00

 

San Diego State University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Natural History Books
(Commercial Book Dealer)

No

4/08
(Alan Simon)

Listed on Amazon.com

No

3/16
(Dan Larro)

Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor

Yes

5/00

 

David Roche

No

5/00

 

Listed on eBay 7/14

No

7/14
(Dan Larro)

"Overall Condition is: GOOD"

Buteo Books (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

5/00

 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

No

5/00

 

Maplewood Memorial Library, NJ

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Glendale Public Library

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Volume II only

Western Foundation for Vertebrate Zoology

Yes

5/00

 Original owner Walter B. Sampson

University of Chicago

No

5/00

 

Dan Larro

No

12/11

"I bought them years ago at a yard sale in southern NJ"

University of Michigan (Buhr Shelving Facility)

No

5/00
---
confirmed 2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

John Bull

Yes

5/00 

 

Mays Landing Public Library

No

1/04

 

Cape May County Library, NJ (Headquarters)

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Joe DiCostanzo

No

12/03

"Purchased it over a decade ago when the Ornithology Department at the American Museum of Natural History
was disposing of duplicate copies of books they had acquired over the
years."

Rockefeller University Library

No

5/00

Purchased new November 1939

University of Michigan

No

5/00

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Biology Library)

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Trinity College, Hartford, CT

No

5/00

 

"Paul S. Baker" Library. The Center for Conservation Biology at The College of William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University.

No

11/10

Donated by Paul S. Baker

Pete Dunne

No

5/00

 

Woodbury Public Library, NJ

No

12/03

Has lots of old library identification stickers in it. Purchased by library for $6.00 in 1941.

Richard Stockton College of NJ

No

5/00

 

Swarthmore College

No

11/15
(Scott McConnell)

Donated by Ethelinda Schaefer Castle '08
https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b1972178

Washington State University

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Academy of Natural Sciences, PA

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon - email from Academy of Natural Sciences librarian)

Donated by DVOC, January 25, 1951

Ron Scovell

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

West Virginia University

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Original owner I.B. Boggs

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences

No

8/07
(Alan Simon)

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL

No

3/04

 

Dan Larro

No

6/14

Purchased from a private house estate sale in Dennis Township, NJ (Cape May County). It is stamped withdrawn on inside cover from original owners University of Minnesota Library.

(Name withheld at owners request)

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

Originally owned by Richard Wood

Dave Goodwin

No

10/14
(Wes Biggs)

Purchased from Dyskolosdaskalos via Amazon Marketplace

Denver (CO) Museum of Nature & Science

No

5/00
---
confirmed 2/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Alan Simon

No

7/07
(Alan Simon)

Delaware County Institure of Science

No

5/00

 

LIsted on eBay 7/14

No

7/14
(Dan Larro)

"Overall condition is: Fair"

Listed for sale on Amazon.com

No

10/12
(Scott McConnell

 

Los Angeles Public Library

No

5/00

 

Frank Schaff

No

5/00

 

Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Yes

5/00 

 

Bridgeton (NJ) Free Public Library

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 5/06
(Alan Simon)

 

Paul O’Brien

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Alan Simon

No

4/08
(Alan Simon)

Purchased on eBay 17 Dec 2007 from Carl Leisy.

Public Library, Ocean City NJ

No

5/04

 

Alan Crawford

No

5/00
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Russell Fink Gallery (Commercial Book Dealer)

No

3/06
(Alan Simon)

John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, PA

Yes

5/00
---
updated 3/06 (Alan Simon)

 

Chris Walters

Yes

5/00
---
confirmed 3/06 (Alan Simon)

Previously owned by Ed Fingerhood

 

 

 

 

Academy of Natural Sciences

Yes 

5/00
---
updated 3/06
(Alan Simon - email from Academy of Natural Sciences librarian)

Volume 2 is misfiled and copy number is unknown.

Media-Upper Providence (PA) Free Library

No

2/06
(Alan Simon)

Both volumes missing