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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, [c. 1870-1871]. 8 vols. 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 present in all volumes. Ayer/Zimmer pp. 25-26; Ellis/Mengel 105; Nissen IVB 52. [With:] AUDUBON and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870]. 3 vols. 155 colored tinted lithographed plates after J. J. and J. W. Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, half-titles. Nissen ZBI 163 (earlier editions).

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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, [c. 1870-1871]. 8 vols. 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 present in all volumes. Ayer/Zimmer pp. 25-26; Ellis/Mengel 105; Nissen IVB 52. [With:] AUDUBON and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870]. 3 vols. 155 colored tinted lithographed plates after J. J. and J. W. Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, half-titles. Nissen ZBI 163 (earlier editions).

Together 11 vols., royal 8vo, 263 x 172 mm. (10 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.), publisher's brown morocco, covers panel-stamped in blind with central lozenge, spines blind-panelled in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, g.e., turn-ins gilt, rubbed, occasional loss to leather at extremities, inner hinges cracked, Birds: discoloration to gutters of plates 141 (v.3) and 270 (v.4), very light foxing or spotting to upper margins of 5 or 6 plates, Quadrupeds: a few tiny spots to plate 66 (v.2), insignificant small spots to margins of 3 or 4 plates, dampstaining to fore-margins of pp. 121-124 in v.3, approximately 5 plates with fore-margin captions or imprints shaved, a few captions faintly printed, occasional very light spotting to text.

George Lockwood's reprints of the octavo editions of the Birds and Quadrupeds, 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.
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