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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES
The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York: John James Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839], 1840-1844.
7 vols. Large 8vo, contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First octavo edition, complete with 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, with tissue guards, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text, half-titles, and subscriber's list to each volume.
The octavo edition added 65 new plates to the double-elephant folio edition for a total of 500 plates, making it "the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time." (Reese) Rubbing to boards; chipping to spine ends; darkening to endpapers, some vols.; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; scattered light brown spots.
Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois
The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York: John James Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839], 1840-1844.
7 vols. Large 8vo, contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First octavo edition, complete with 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, with tissue guards, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text, half-titles, and subscriber's list to each volume.
The octavo edition added 65 new plates to the double-elephant folio edition for a total of 500 plates, making it "the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time." (Reese) Rubbing to boards; chipping to spine ends; darkening to endpapers, some vols.; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; scattered light brown spots.
Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois
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