(BIRDS) John James Audubon The Birds of America

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Sale 2706 - Lot 279

Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000

(BIRDS.) John James Audubon. The Birds of America. 500 hand-colored tinted lithographed plates (lacking plate 500, Baird's Bunting, but with a duplicate of plate 362, Roseate Spoonbill, bound in its stead). 7 volumes. Royal 8vo, 10½x7 inches, publisher's gilt-and-blind-tooled brown morocco, scuffed and polished; scattered foxing throughout the text but plates largely escaping much of that and only mildly toned; a nice set of the second octavo edition. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856

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