Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2386Location: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2007 11:00AM
Description:
Audubon, John Woodhouse (1812-1862),American Marsh Shrew; Yellow Bellied Marmot; Townsend's Shrew Mole; & Southern Pouched Rat, Dekay's Shrew, Long Nosed Shrew, Silvery Shrew Mole , four plates, CXXV, CXXXIV, CXLV, and CL, each from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, lithograph printed in colors and heightened with touches of gum arabic, by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1847-1848, folio, the full sheet, 21 5/8 by 27 1/4 in., (edge chip to last, very faint marginal toning, else fine, colors bright and crisp).
Estimate $600-800