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Lot 336
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Aug 29, 2024
Lots Close
Sep 11, 2024
Timed Online / Chicago
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$1,000 -
1,500
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$2,858
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Lot Description
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Audubon's Fifty Best from the Original Havell Engravings of the Birds of America...the Field Museum. Chicago: Oppenheimer Editions, 1999.
5 volumes, double-elephant folio. 43 (of 50) color prints, on archival cotton sheets, blind-stamped and signed. Publisher's cloth portfolios, morocco labels gilt to upper covers and spines.
LIMITED EDITION, number 42 of 150 copies, each print numbered and signed by Field Museum librarian Ben Williams. The Oppenheimer edition of Audubon's prints, created as a joint venture between the Joel Oppenheimer Gallery and the Field Museum of Chicago, is noted for having produced the highest quality prints of Audubon's illustrations since the original edition of Birds of America.
This lot is located in Chicago.


