May 26, 2016 - Sale 2417

Sale 2417 - Lot 240

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America. [Volume 1, only.] 68 hand-colored lithographed plates (of 70), lacking plates 40 & 67. 1 volume, of 7. Royal 8vo, Original half pebbled leather, brown cloth. Front board and spine detached from text block; several stains and marks, generally very clean. New York & Philadelphia: Audubon and J.B.Chevalier, 1840.