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Lot 183
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Audubon, John James and John Bachman

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849–51–54
  • paper, ink, leather
3 volumes, in 8s (10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.; 260 x 172 mm). 155 fine handcolored lithographed plates by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J. J. and J. W. Audubon; no half-title in vol. 2, light toning to text throughout. Contemporary brown morocco with gilt-blocked covers featuring a vignette of a squirrel. 

Literature

Bennett 5; Nissen ZBI 163; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 38

Catalogue Note

FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. containing one hundred and fifty plates from the 1845–1848 folio edition of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of America and five of the plates from the rare 1854 supplement of that work.