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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America. Half-titles, subscriber's lists, 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon. 7 volumes. Royal 8vo, 10 1/4x6 1/4 inches, contemporary half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, light wear, hinges unprofessionally repaired; moderate foxing largely keeping to text and tissue guards, plates seeing scattered offset but generally clean with bright coloring, several plates misbound, foredge shaved close barely affecting a handful of images, waterstain to volumes V-VII gently affecting many plates. Provenance: John Pierce Brace, with his name stamped at each spine foot and ink ownership inscriptions to each title-page. should be seen. New York: J.J. Audubon; and Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844
subscriber's copy of the first octavo edition of Audubon's greatly popular Birds of America. Original owner John Pierce Brace spent more than thirty years of his life as an educator to colonial women, serving as headmaster at Litchfield Academy for Girls and later holding the same position at the Hartford Female Seminary. Following his tenure in education, Brace took over the editorship of the Hartford Courant newspaper until retirement at the age of 70. His son, Charles Loring Brace, is the noted nineteenth-century philanthropist and social reformer. The present books are offered by descent through the family.
