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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, n.d. [c. 1870-1871]. 8 vols., royal 8vo, 263 x 174 mm. (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.), original brown half morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges, binding badly worn with ten covers detached, edges of some leaves slightly darkened. 500 hand-colored tinted lithographed plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, half-titles. Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 25-26; Ellis/Mengel 105; Nissen IVB 52.
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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, n.d. [c. 1870-1871]. 8 vols., royal 8vo, 263 x 174 mm. (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.), original brown half morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges, binding badly worn with ten covers detached, edges of some leaves slightly darkened. 500 hand-colored tinted lithographed plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, half-titles. Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 25-26; Ellis/Mengel 105; Nissen IVB 52.
The so-called third octavo edition: a reprint by George Lockwood of John Woodhouse Audubon's edition of his father's work in octavo form, printed in the main from the same lithographic stones and stereotype plates as the earlier editions. The stones were destroyed in the 1870s by a fire in a Philadelphia warehouse. (8)
The so-called third octavo edition: a reprint by George Lockwood of John Woodhouse Audubon's edition of his father's work in octavo form, printed in the main from the same lithographic stones and stereotype plates as the earlier editions. The stones were destroyed in the 1870s by a fire in a Philadelphia warehouse. (8)