Lot 38
  • 38

Audubon, John James

Estimate
1,800 - 2,500 USD
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Description

Connecticut Warbler and Orange-crowned Warbler



2 handcolored engraved plates with etching and aquatint (38 x 25  1/4  in.; 967 x 642 mm), extracted from The Birds of America (London, 1827–1838), after Audubon by Robert Havell, numbered plate cxxxviii and plate clxxviiiGood impressions with fresh coloring, generous margins; some minor marginal creasing, slight paper loss at left margin of plate 178 due to extraction from bound volume.  Floated and glazed in handsome gilt frames.