John James Audubon

Estimate

14,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories.... The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: George R. Lockwood, 1870.
ink, paper

11 volumes, large 8vo (10 3/8 x 6 5/8 in.; 264 x 168 mm). Half-titles, 500 consecutively numbered and tinted lithographed plates after J. J. and J. W. Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly, printed and finished by hand by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia and 155 plates for second title; endpapers spotted, but plates only very occasionally spotted, a fine set. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, gilt, marbled boards, edges and endleaves; a little minor shelfwear, corner of one volume scraped.

Literature

Ayer/Zimmer 25-26; Copenhagen/Anker 19n; Ellis/Mengel 105; Nissen TVB 52n; Tyler, Audubon's Great National Work, 129, Appendix n. 8-9

Catalogue Note

The present edition of Birds belongs to one of two reprinted by George Lockwood between 1870 and 1871. "These editions were bound in eight volumes rather than seven, and were printed, where possible, from the same stones and stereotype plates that had been made in the 1840s and 1850s" (Tyler). Some time after 1870, the stones from which the octavo editions were printed were destroyed by a fire in a Philadelphia warehouse.