AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J. J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44. Another copy, 7 vols., large 8vo, 260 x 165 mm. (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in..), green half morocco, spines gilt with four different bird tools, g.e., by Bayntun, very light scuffing to a few corners, spines faded, new tissue guards, traces of adhesive to gutter of pl. 97, 2 plates in vol. 5 and one in vol. 7 slightly cropped, occasional light mostly marginal foxing or discoloration, occasional faint offsetting of textto plates, repaired tear touching text of p. I:29 , colored mezzotint portrait by C. Turner inserted in vol. 1. Provenance : William Drake, signatures in ink on titles of vols. 4-7 Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (7)
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J. J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44. Another copy, 7 vols., large 8vo, 260 x 165 mm. (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in..), green half morocco, spines gilt with four different bird tools, g.e., by Bayntun, very light scuffing to a few corners, spines faded, new tissue guards, traces of adhesive to gutter of pl. 97, 2 plates in vol. 5 and one in vol. 7 slightly cropped, occasional light mostly marginal foxing or discoloration, occasional faint offsetting of textto plates, repaired tear touching text of p. I:29 , colored mezzotint portrait by C. Turner inserted in vol. 1. Provenance : William Drake, signatures in ink on titles of vols. 4-7 Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (7)
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