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AUDUBON, John James (1785-1841). 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 (255 x 165 mm). Half-titles, blank leaf pp.[247-248] in vol.I and 18pp. of lists of subscribers. 495 (of 500) hand-colored lithographed plates only after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical illustrations. (Lacking plates numbered 351-355 from vol.VI together with the associated text pages 9-40, plate 95 in vol.II loosely inserted, text of first three volumes spotted, occasional spotting to plates, generally slight, about 6 plates shaved with slight loss.) Contemporary purple half roan gilt, the flat spines divided into five compartments by gilt fillets and roll tools, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, repeat decoration in gilt in the others, cream glazed endpapers (occasional light scuffing to extremities). Provenance: Wm. R. Sleight (Sag Harbor, Long Island, subscriber [see list in vol.v], signatures, presented to his daughter:); Anna F. Sleight (inscriptions dated "Dec. 25.1865").
A SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON'S MASTERPIECE. Audubon created 65 new images for the present edition, supplementing the original 435 of the double-elephant folio edition of 1827-1838. The resulting series of 500 plates constitute the most extensive American color-plate book produced up until that time. Unfortunately the present example is missing a section from vol.VI - five plate and 30 pages of text that were clearly never bound in. The Philadelphia printer J.T. Bowen reduced the double-elephant plates using a camera lucida and the resulting lithographs show significant changes in the backgrounds and compositions. One of the most obvious changes was to allocate an individual plate to every species: no plate includes more than one species. 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; Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364; McGrath, p.50; Reese Stamped with a National Character 35 (ref.) (7)
7 volumes, royal 8o (255 x 165 mm). Half-titles, blank leaf pp.[247-248] in vol.I and 18pp. of lists of subscribers. 495 (of 500) hand-colored lithographed plates only after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical illustrations. (Lacking plates numbered 351-355 from vol.VI together with the associated text pages 9-40, plate 95 in vol.II loosely inserted, text of first three volumes spotted, occasional spotting to plates, generally slight, about 6 plates shaved with slight loss.) Contemporary purple half roan gilt, the flat spines divided into five compartments by gilt fillets and roll tools, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, repeat decoration in gilt in the others, cream glazed endpapers (occasional light scuffing to extremities). Provenance: Wm. R. Sleight (Sag Harbor, Long Island, subscriber [see list in vol.v], signatures, presented to his daughter:); Anna F. Sleight (inscriptions dated "Dec. 25.1865").
A SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON'S MASTERPIECE. Audubon created 65 new images for the present edition, supplementing the original 435 of the double-elephant folio edition of 1827-1838. The resulting series of 500 plates constitute the most extensive American color-plate book produced up until that time. Unfortunately the present example is missing a section from vol.VI - five plate and 30 pages of text that were clearly never bound in. The Philadelphia printer J.T. Bowen reduced the double-elephant plates using a camera lucida and the resulting lithographs show significant changes in the backgrounds and compositions. One of the most obvious changes was to allocate an individual plate to every species: no plate includes more than one species. 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; Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364; McGrath, p.50; Reese Stamped with a National Character 35 (ref.) (7)