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John James Audubon
Quadrupeds of North America, 1849-54
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3 vols. First octavo edition containing 155 hand colored lithographs. Armorial bookplate of Harmon Pumpelly and his signature in light ink on title page of each volume.
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John James Audubon
The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the US and their Territories, 1840-1844
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Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844., 1844. 7 volumes. 8vo., (10 1/8 x 6 4/8 inches). Half-titles, subscribers' lists at end of each volume. 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text (intermittent offsetting and spotting, particularly to the tissue guards and corresponding text leaves at the beginning and end of each volume). Bound in full red morocco gilt, elaborately decorated in gilt (extremities a bit rubbed). The first octavo edition of John James Audubon's masterpiece, a tall copy with colors very clean and fresh. The resulting series of 500 plates constitutes the most extensive American color-plate book produced up to that time.
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