Lot 51
  • 51

Audubon, John James & John Bachman

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854



3 volumes, in 8s (10 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.; 270 x 175 mm). 154 handcolored lithographed plates after J. J. Audubon and J. W. Audubon, backgrounds after V. Audubon, by J. T. Bowen, all with tissue guards; lacking plate 8 in the first volume ("Chipping Squirrel"), a few soil marks on pages 184-185 of vol. 2. Contemporary red pebbled calf, elaborately gilt; joints starting, corners, edges and joints rubbed.

Literature

Nissen ZBI 163; Reese, American Color Plate Books 38; Sabin 2368

Catalogue Note

Second octavo edition of the Quadrupeds, containing the plates from the folio edition and five of the six plates from the rare 1854 supplement to that work.