AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J.J. Audubon, Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier [1839-] 1840-1844. 7 vols., royal 8vo, 263 x 168mm. (10 5/16 x 6 9/16in.), contemporary black half morocco gilt, stab-stitched, most joints broken, backstrip of vol. 1 defective, perforated library stamp on each title and ink release stamp on verso, some foxing and offsetting decreasing in severity from vols. 1 to 7, lacks half-titles. 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 text, subscriber lists in all vols. Ayer/Zimmer, p. 22; Bennett, p. 5; McGill/Wood, p. 208; Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364.