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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 (272 x 175 mm). Half-titles; subscribers' lists. (Some spotting to text.) 500 hand-colored lithographic plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text, plate 196 misnumbered 160 (scattered light foxing and offsetting to some plates). Original brown half morocco gilt, untrimmed, by Riviere (spines lightly darkened and dried, some light wear along joints, upper hinge of vol. I cracked, front cover of last volume partly peeled). Provenance: Philip Hamond, Esq. (bookplate).
AN UNUSUALLY TALL COPY OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION of John James Audubon's masterpiece. 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. (7)
7 volumes, royal 8
AN UNUSUALLY TALL COPY OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION of John James Audubon's masterpiece. 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. (7)
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The binding is contemporary half morocco by Riviere, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, a very wide-margined copy.