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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York: J.J. Audubon (---V.G. Audubon), 1845-54.
6 vols., comprising plates: 3 vols., atlas folio, 685 x 530 mm. (27 x 20 7/8in.) and text: 3 vols., royal 8vo, 264 x 174 mm (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.). Plates in nineteenth-century English green half morocco gilt, g.e., by J. Wright; text in late nineteenth-century American purple half-morocco gilt, g.e.; extremities of plate volumes with slight bruising and rubbing.
FIRST EDITION except text volume III which is from the first octavo edition of Quadrupeds, as often). Atlas with 150 finely colored lithographed plates after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon, the backgrounds after Victor Audubon, by J.T. Bowen, 3 lithographed title-pages and 3 pages of letterpress contents. Plate CXXIX misnumbered CXXIV. Text with 6 finely colored lithographed plates after J.W. Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock (nos. 124, 151-155). Half-titles in vols. 1 and 3 (not required in text vol. 3).
A FINE COPY WITH BRILLIANT COLORING, THE FOLIO PLATES IN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN CONDITION. The Atlas titles and contents leaves are foxed (vol.2 with a 1 1/4 inch closed marginal tear) and have single soft vertical creases. Plate 137 has a tiny repair to lower blank margin. Sheets of text volumes are a little dark. The Viviparous Quadrupeds is also found bound up in two volumes, often without the title for vol. 3. These two-volume sets are a later issue and their coloring is less vivid than in the three-volume issue, as here.
Bennett, p. 5; McGill/Wood, p. 208; Nissen ZBI162.
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Provenance:
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966) (6)
6 vols., comprising plates: 3 vols., atlas folio, 685 x 530 mm. (27 x 20 7/8in.) and text: 3 vols., royal 8vo, 264 x 174 mm (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.). Plates in nineteenth-century English green half morocco gilt, g.e., by J. Wright; text in late nineteenth-century American purple half-morocco gilt, g.e.; extremities of plate volumes with slight bruising and rubbing.
FIRST EDITION except text volume III which is from the first octavo edition of Quadrupeds, as often). Atlas with 150 finely colored lithographed plates after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon, the backgrounds after Victor Audubon, by J.T. Bowen, 3 lithographed title-pages and 3 pages of letterpress contents. Plate CXXIX misnumbered CXXIV. Text with 6 finely colored lithographed plates after J.W. Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock (nos. 124, 151-155). Half-titles in vols. 1 and 3 (not required in text vol. 3).
A FINE COPY WITH BRILLIANT COLORING, THE FOLIO PLATES IN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN CONDITION. The Atlas titles and contents leaves are foxed (vol.2 with a 1 1/4 inch closed marginal tear) and have single soft vertical creases. Plate 137 has a tiny repair to lower blank margin. Sheets of text volumes are a little dark. The Viviparous Quadrupeds is also found bound up in two volumes, often without the title for vol. 3. These two-volume sets are a later issue and their coloring is less vivid than in the three-volume issue, as here.
Bennett, p. 5; McGill/Wood, p. 208; Nissen ZBI162.
(6)
Provenance:
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966) (6)