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RENEE BARUCH SAMSTAG
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon 1849-1854. 3 vols., royal 8vo, 258 x 168mm. (10 3/16 x 6 5/8in.), nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt and with red and black morocco gilt-lettered labels; bound up from the parts with stab holes evident, slight wear to extremities, lower inner joint of vol. 1 and upper inner joint of vol. 3 broken, some plates with printed captions partly cropped, most text browned, occasional staining to plates, most sheets slightly darkened. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 155 colored lithographed plates after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen. Bennett p. 5 (note); Nissen ZBI 163; Sabin 2368.
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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon 1849-1854. 3 vols., royal 8vo, 258 x 168mm. (10 3/16 x 6 5/8in.), nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt and with red and black morocco gilt-lettered labels; bound up from the parts with stab holes evident, slight wear to extremities, lower inner joint of vol. 1 and upper inner joint of vol. 3 broken, some plates with printed captions partly cropped, most text browned, occasional staining to plates, most sheets slightly darkened. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 155 colored lithographed plates after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen. Bennett p. 5 (note); Nissen ZBI 163; Sabin 2368.
Provenance: H.H. Trenor (probably a relative of J. Trenor, M.D., listed among the New York City subscribers to the first octavo edition of Birds of America on p. 253 of vol. I of B of A), his name stamped in gilt at foot of each spine--Joseph Widener, bookplate in each volume. (3)
Provenance: H.H. Trenor (probably a relative of J. Trenor, M.D., listed among the New York City subscribers to the first octavo edition of Birds of America on p. 253 of vol. I of B of A), his name stamped in gilt at foot of each spine--Joseph Widener, bookplate in each volume. (3)