Lot 22
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Audubon, John James - John Bachman

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Audubon, John James - John Bachman
  • The Birds of America. New York: VG Audubon, 1856 — The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856
  • ink and paper; morocco binding
10 volumes, 8vo (10 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins.; 265 x 165 mm). 500 plates and 155 plates respectively; generally clean except for browning to titles, foxing, spotting to prelims and generally 2-3 plates per volume with more than very minor fading or spotting. Uniformly bound in publisher's elaborately blind-stamped morocco, spine gilt; most hinges cracked or starting, a few joints weak, text block of first volume loose in binding. 
[with]: Maria R. Audubon. Audubon and his journals. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1900. 2 vols. 8vo. original publisher's green gilt covers. 

Literature

Ayer/Zimmer, p. 22, Nissen IVB, 51; Reese 34; Sabin 2364

Condition

generally clean except for browning to titles, foxing, spotting to prelims and generally 2-3 plates per volume with more than very minor fading or spotting. Uniformly bound in publisher's elaborately blind-stamped morocco, spine gilt; most hinges cracked or starting, a few joints weak, text block of first volume loose in binding.
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Catalogue Note

The Birds of America uniformly bound with The Quadrupeds of North America.

For the original octavo edition (see preceding lot) all of the birds from Audubon's original folio aquatints were reproduced by camera lucida for lithography by the artist's son, John Wodehouse Audubon. Seven new species are figured, and seventeen others previously described in the Ornithological Biography but not illustrated are also depicted.