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Travel - Exploration - Maps - Natural History
1:00 PM PT - Feb 7th, 2008

 

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Volume 4 of Audubon's Birds 1842 Octavo Edn.

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Title: The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume IV.
Author: Audubon, John James
Description: Volume IV only. viii, [11]-321. List of Subscribers. Illustrated with 69 (of 70) hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 10¼x6½, period half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered.First octavo edition of Audubon's masterpiece. Contains the plates on Marsh Blackbirds, Starlings, Crows, Shrikes, Greenlets, Manakins, Chatterers, Nuthatches, Humming-Birds, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Cuckoos, Parrots and Pigeons.
Heading: zzePlace Published: New York & Philadelphia
Publisher: J.J. Audubon & J.B. Chevalier
Date Published: 1842

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Extremities worn, partially disbound, light to moderate foxing to text pages and tissue guards throughout; lacking one plate (plate 17, Baltimore Oriole) light to moderate foxing to plates; overall plates very good or better.

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