Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of North America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories.

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Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of North America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: by J.J. Audubon [and] Philadelphia: by J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. First edition, seven octavo volumes, illustrated throughout with 500 colored lithographs; each volume with half-title and list of subscribers, bound in uniform contemporary dark blue morocco, tooled in gilt, a.e.g; contents very good, a few tissue guards with offsetting, endleaves discolored, 10 x 6 1/2 in. (7)

Provenance: from the estate of Dr. James Woodward Wallace, Coolidge Hill, Cambridge, MA.
Estimate $20,000-25,000


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