(NATURAL HISTORY) Audubon John James; and John Bachman The Q

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(NATURAL HISTORY.) Audubon, John James; and John Bachman. The Quadrupeds of North America. 144 (of 155) hand-colored tinted lithographed plates. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 green morocco over marbled boards, Volume II backstrip coming loose with a portion missing from the head; evidently bound without parts 8 and 30, lacking the text for those sections, intermittent moderate foxing or toning (many plates quite clean); early pencil signature on Volume III front free endpaper. New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854

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First octavo edition. Early owner Ernest Hoen (1828-1893) was a well-known Baltimore lithographer. Reese, American Color Plate Books 38.