$3,567
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) and Reverend John Bachman (1790-1874) The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: Published by V.G. Audubon, 1854. Three octavo volumes, illustrated with 155 full-page color lithographic plates; the plates in volume one variously signed, some reading, "Drawn on Stone by Wm. E. Hitchcock" and "Lith. Printed & Col[ore]d. by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia," others signed, "Drawn on Stone by R. Trembly" and "Printed by Nagel & Weingaertner NY," and others with the latter imprint, "Colored by J. Lawrence"; volumes two and three with Hitchcock/Bowen plates; half-titles present in all three volumes, no tissue guards throughout, list of subscribers in volume two only; quite clean, bound in later half crushed dark brown morocco and cloth, a.e.g., 10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (3)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-11-15
