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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES AND REV. JOHN BACHMAN
The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V[ictor] G[ifford] Audubon, 1854. Three volumes. First octavo edition. Publisher's black pebbled leather, boards elaborately panelled in gilt with fillets, roll-tools and elaborate arabesque corner-pieces, five raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt. 10 inches (25.5 cm). 383, 334, 348 pp., plus plates. Complete with one hundred fifty-five hand-finished chromolithographs by William E. Hitchcock after J. A. and J. W. Audubon. Bindings worn, with both boards of the first volume detached and the front board of the first volume quite loose, the text blocks in two of the volumes are bound in upside down, typical browning and spotting, generally affecting plates less than the surrounding pages.
Bennett p. 5, cf. Nissen ZBI 163, etc.
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES AND REV. JOHN BACHMAN
The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V[ictor] G[ifford] Audubon, 1854. Three volumes. First octavo edition. Publisher's black pebbled leather, boards elaborately panelled in gilt with fillets, roll-tools and elaborate arabesque corner-pieces, five raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt. 10 inches (25.5 cm). 383, 334, 348 pp., plus plates. Complete with one hundred fifty-five hand-finished chromolithographs by William E. Hitchcock after J. A. and J. W. Audubon. Bindings worn, with both boards of the first volume detached and the front board of the first volume quite loose, the text blocks in two of the volumes are bound in upside down, typical browning and spotting, generally affecting plates less than the surrounding pages.
Bennett p. 5, cf. Nissen ZBI 163, etc.
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