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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES; and BACHMAN, JOHN. The Quadrupeds of North America. 155 hand-colored lithographed plates. Half-title. 3 volumes. Large 8vo, 267x174 mm, publisher's deluxe bindings of red morocco handsomely gilt-tooled to panel design, scuffed, Volume 2 and 3 front joints just starting; text leaves toned and offset with occasional foxing, small stain at top edge of Volume 3 preliminaries, tape discoloration and contemporary owner's inscription on free endpapers, plate 2 lacks tissue guard, tears in few other tissue guards in Volume 1, marginal soiling on first few plates in Volume 2 and marginal foxing on roughly half the plates in Volume 3, the remaining plates generally clean. New York: V. G. Audubon, 1854
