Title: The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume 1 Author: Audubon, John James Place: New York & Philadelphia Publisher: J.J. Audubon & J.B. Chevalier Date: 1840 Description: Volume I only. [iii]-viii, [2], [11]-256. List of Subscribers. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 25.5x16.5 cm. (10¼x6½, period half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered, all edges gilt. . First octavo edition of Audubon's masterpiece. Contains the plates on vultures, falcons, owls, goat-suckers, swifts, swallows, and flycatchers. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers worn, detached; mild to moderate foxing to text pages and tissue guards, occasional light foxing to plates, one with marginal darkened patch and pinholes from previous attachment, some light offset from the text to plates, overall plates very good or better. Item number: 239950
Title: The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume 1 Author: Audubon, John James Place: New York & Philadelphia Publisher: J.J. Audubon & J.B. Chevalier Date: 1840 Description: Volume I only. [iii]-viii, [2], [11]-256. List of Subscribers. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 25.5x16.5 cm. (10¼x6½, period half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered, all edges gilt. . First octavo edition of Audubon's masterpiece. Contains the plates on vultures, falcons, owls, goat-suckers, swifts, swallows, and flycatchers. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers worn, detached; mild to moderate foxing to text pages and tissue guards, occasional light foxing to plates, one with marginal darkened patch and pinholes from previous attachment, some light offset from the text to plates, overall plates very good or better. Item number: 239950
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