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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York and Philadelphia: J.J. Audubon and J.B. Chevalier [1839-] 1840-1844. 7 vols., royal 8vo, 260 x 164 mm. (10¼ x 6 7/16 in.), contemporary purple hardgrained morocco gilt, plain edges, by P. Low of Boston with his ticket, most hinges cracked but stitching secure; some staining to plates 91, 137, 268, 349 and 456, plates 293, 310 and 376 very slightly cropped, some occasional offsetting from plates to text, slight finger soiling and handling creases, lacks half-title in vol. 7; modern quarter green morocco gilt clamshell boxes. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 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 text. Ayer/Zimmer, p. 22; Bennett, p. 5; McGill/Wood, p. 208; Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364. Nineteenth-century bookplates of Oliver Edwards, Brookline, Massachusetts. (7)
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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York and Philadelphia: J.J. Audubon and J.B. Chevalier [1839-] 1840-1844. 7 vols., royal 8vo, 260 x 164 mm. (10¼ x 6 7/16 in.), contemporary purple hardgrained morocco gilt, plain edges, by P. Low of Boston with his ticket, most hinges cracked but stitching secure; some staining to plates 91, 137, 268, 349 and 456, plates 293, 310 and 376 very slightly cropped, some occasional offsetting from plates to text, slight finger soiling and handling creases, lacks half-title in vol. 7; modern quarter green morocco gilt clamshell boxes. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 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 text. Ayer/Zimmer, p. 22; Bennett, p. 5; McGill/Wood, p. 208; Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364. Nineteenth-century bookplates of Oliver Edwards, Brookline, Massachusetts. (7)