May 12, 2005 - Sale 2043

Sale 2043 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 4,830
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Title-page from the double-elephant folio first edition of The Birds of America Signed by Audubon, "Autograph of John James Audubon" and dated, engraved title for Volume III. Approximately 32x191/2 inches sight size; vertical crease in the left margin with some restoration (not affecting text or inscription); matted and framed. Baltimore, 29 February 1840 [inscription]

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A wonderful presentation piece for the discerning Audubon collector. Audubon was in Baltimore in 1840 gathering subscriptions for the first octavo edition of his monumental work.