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Lot 176

Sale 5372 - Rare Books & Manuscripts
Apr 10, 2014 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$1,500 - 2,500
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$5,000
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2 vols.


2 vols.
Audubon, John James. The Birds of America. New York; Philadelphia, 1840-1841.

1st 8vo ed. Vols 1 & 2 (bound with fragment of vol 3). Lg 8vo, contemp morocco & pebbled cloth; rubbed & worn, hinges broken. With 150 of 155 hand-colored lithographic plates. Minor creasing & light foxing to plates, plate 104 moderately to heavily foxed, some staining to verso of plate 36, other scattered minor staining. Lacking plates 40 & 67 in vol 1; 93, 96 & 111 in vol 2. With lists of subscribers, lacking vol 3 title-page.

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