Nov 14, 2002 - Sale 1952

Sale 1952 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
SENDING PARTS OF THE BIRDS OF AMERICA TO A SUBSCRIBER AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, to G. H. Ryland, acknowledging receipt of payment of $20, informing him that several parts to the first octavo edition of Birds of America will be sent together and that the work will have 100 numbers in all and be completed over the course of several years. 1 page, folded 4to sheet with integral address leaf; usual folds, 3-inch tear affecting text (partially repaired), clipped portion on address leaf. New York, 15 April 1841
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". . . Tomorrow or on Monday next we will forward you several numbers at once, and hope that they will reach you in safety as hereafter. This work will consist of one hundred numbers and will be completed in five and a half years from the present date . . ."
Ryland is listed as an original subscriber in the first octavo edition of Audubon's Birds of America.