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Lot 126
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$4,000 -
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$7,560
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[Prints] Audubon, John James White-headed Eagle
London: R. Havell, (1834). Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, on J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermarked paper, dated 1834. Engraved, printed, and colored by R. Havell after J.J. Audubon’s watercolor. Elephant folio, 39 1/2 x 26 5/8 in. (100 x 67 cm). Sheet toned; foxing along most edges and at corners; scattered spotting in image; bottom left corner lightly worn; very slightly trimmed along edges. In frame, 42 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (108 x 73 cm).
Plate CXXVI from Audubon's The Birds of America (London, 1827-38). A handsome example.