[Rarebooks] FS: Audubon's QUADRUPEDS with 155 Hand-Colored Plates

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog --WINTER MISCELLANY 2021-- containing 50 new 
arrivals, mostly Hand-Colored Plate Books and Fine Bindings with a 
scattering of High Spots, many Signed.

AUDUBON, John James and BACHMAN, Rev. John. THE QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH 
AMERICA. New York: V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Second 
Octavo Edition of the first volume, First Editions of the second and 
third. Three volumes in modern half black morocco leather with matching 
corners, retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled; 
6-3/4" x 10-3/8"; viii, 383, [1] pages; [2], 334 pages; [2], 348, [iv] 
pages with half-title page in the third volume. Complete with 155 
hand-finished chromolithographs with tissue guards by R. Trembly (first 
volume) and William E. Hitchcock (second and third volumes), after J. A. 
and J. W. Audubon. Bennett, page 5; Nissen ZBI 163; Reese STAMPED WITH A 
NATIONAL CHARACTER 38; Sabin 2638; Wood, page 208. Some generally minor 
toning and spotting to the text, as usual, a few plate imprints slightly 
shaved; the tissue guards are occasionally a bit foxed and discolored, 
but the plates are bright and free from foxing and other defects. Tears 
with slight loss to lower margin of pages 3-6 and to the margin of Plate 
XVI, text and image not affected. Hinges reinforced with cloth, first 
signature of first volume reinforced at gutter. Attractive set with 
lovely hand-colored plates. (#020735)        $15,000

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