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AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). 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 volumes, royal 8o (266 x 165 mm). Half-titles; subscribers' lists. 500 hand-colored lithographic plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen (plate 150 spotted, plate 232 with small hole in upper blank area, small marginal tear to plate 234, light soiling to blank area beneath subject on plate 254, plate 310 trimmed to extreme top of image, small stains in upper margins of plates 374 and 375, small repaired tear on plate 484, light browning in upper margin to approximately 10 plates, some very occasional show-through from text, but generally very fine impressions of the plates), wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text. (Some occasional minor marginal foxing to text.) Early 20th-century red half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, by Bumpus. Provenance: David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (bookplate) sold American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 16 January 1930, lot 109 -- Henry Lewis Batterman, Jr. (bookplate) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 15 July 1974.
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION of John James Audubon's masterpiece, a fine, tall copy with colors clean and fresh. Audubon created 65 new images for the octavo edition, supplementing the original 435 of the double-elephant folio edition of 1827-38. The resulting series of 500 plates constitute the most extensive American color-plate book produced up to that time. The Philadelphia printer J.T. Bowen reduced the double-elephant plates by camera lucida and the resulting lithographs show significant changes in the backgrounds and compositions. The original configurations were altered so that only one species is depicted per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's "A Synopsis of the Birds of North America" (1839). Ayer/Zimmer, p.22; Bennett, p.5; McGill/Wood, p.208; Nissen IVB 51; Reese 34; Sabin 2364. A FINE SET, WITH GOOD IMPRESSIONS OF THE PLATES. (7)
7 volumes, royal 8o (266 x 165 mm). Half-titles; subscribers' lists. 500 hand-colored lithographic plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen (plate 150 spotted, plate 232 with small hole in upper blank area, small marginal tear to plate 234, light soiling to blank area beneath subject on plate 254, plate 310 trimmed to extreme top of image, small stains in upper margins of plates 374 and 375, small repaired tear on plate 484, light browning in upper margin to approximately 10 plates, some very occasional show-through from text, but generally very fine impressions of the plates), wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text. (Some occasional minor marginal foxing to text.) Early 20th-century red half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, by Bumpus. Provenance: David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (bookplate) sold American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 16 January 1930, lot 109 -- Henry Lewis Batterman, Jr. (bookplate) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 15 July 1974.
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION of John James Audubon's masterpiece, a fine, tall copy with colors clean and fresh. Audubon created 65 new images for the octavo edition, supplementing the original 435 of the double-elephant folio edition of 1827-38. The resulting series of 500 plates constitute the most extensive American color-plate book produced up to that time. The Philadelphia printer J.T. Bowen reduced the double-elephant plates by camera lucida and the resulting lithographs show significant changes in the backgrounds and compositions. The original configurations were altered so that only one species is depicted per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's "A Synopsis of the Birds of North America" (1839). Ayer/Zimmer, p.22; Bennett, p.5; McGill/Wood, p.208; Nissen IVB 51; Reese 34; Sabin 2364. A FINE SET, WITH GOOD IMPRESSIONS OF THE PLATES. (7)