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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J.J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier 1840-44.
7 vols., large 8vo, contemporary brown morocco, covers gilt- and blind-panelled, spines blind-panelled, raised bands gilt-tooled, new mylar chemises, modern morocco-edged slipcases, tissue guards; inner hinges renewed, slight wear to joints and extremities of spines of vols. 1 and 5, plate numbers of plates 442 and 465, caption of pl. 141, and image of pl. 310 slightly cropped, pl. 496 bound in upside down, a few marginal tears or repairs to text leaves, some foxing and browning.
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen; wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in the text. Nissen IVB 51; Wood p. 208; Zimmer p. 22. (7)
7 vols., large 8vo, contemporary brown morocco, covers gilt- and blind-panelled, spines blind-panelled, raised bands gilt-tooled, new mylar chemises, modern morocco-edged slipcases, tissue guards; inner hinges renewed, slight wear to joints and extremities of spines of vols. 1 and 5, plate numbers of plates 442 and 465, caption of pl. 141, and image of pl. 310 slightly cropped, pl. 496 bound in upside down, a few marginal tears or repairs to text leaves, some foxing and browning.
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen; wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in the text. Nissen IVB 51; Wood p. 208; Zimmer p. 22. (7)