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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V. G. Audubon 1849-51-54.
3 vols., 8vo, contemporary half brown morocco, g.e., rubbed, front inner hinges of vols. 1 and 3 broken, lacking the half-titles, library ink-stamps on title-leaves (recto and verso) and 1 or 2 text-pages in each vol., library rules and borrowers' slip pasted down on lower endpapers, tiny tears to inner margin of plate 19 (coming unsewn), faint offsetting of a few images to text in spite of tissue guards, some light foxing to title-pages and last pages, occasional spotting to text.
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 155 hand-finished color lithographed plates by J. T. Bowen from the drawings on stone by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, after J. A. and J. W. Audubon. Bennet p. 5; Nissen ZBI 163.
Provenance: Redwood Library bookplate, inscribed "Gift of Mr. John Clinton Gray". (3)
3 vols., 8vo, contemporary half brown morocco, g.e., rubbed, front inner hinges of vols. 1 and 3 broken, lacking the half-titles, library ink-stamps on title-leaves (recto and verso) and 1 or 2 text-pages in each vol., library rules and borrowers' slip pasted down on lower endpapers, tiny tears to inner margin of plate 19 (coming unsewn), faint offsetting of a few images to text in spite of tissue guards, some light foxing to title-pages and last pages, occasional spotting to text.
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 155 hand-finished color lithographed plates by J. T. Bowen from the drawings on stone by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, after J. A. and J. W. Audubon. Bennet p. 5; Nissen ZBI 163.
Provenance: Redwood Library bookplate, inscribed "Gift of Mr. John Clinton Gray". (3)