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. 7 vols., 8vo, contemporary black half morocco gilt, spines gilt and gilt-lettered, g.e., a few joints dry but all sound, some scuffing, occasional very light offsetting. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembley, and others, text woodcuts, half-titles, cumulative list of subscribers in each volume. Bennett 5; Nissen IVB 51; Fries, Appendix A; Sabin 2364. A clean, bright copy. (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. 7 vols., 8vo, contemporary black half morocco gilt, spines gilt and gilt-lettered, g.e., a few joints dry but all sound, some scuffing, occasional very light offsetting. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembley, and others, text woodcuts, half-titles, cumulative list of subscribers in each volume. Bennett 5; Nissen IVB 51; Fries, Appendix A; Sabin 2364. A clean, bright copy. (7)
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