Lot 18 of 230:
Original part for Audubon's Birds  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$570
Estimate:
$400 - $600

Title:
The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States

Author:
Audubon, John James

Place:
New York & Philadelphia

Publisher:
J.J. Audubon / J.B. Chevalier

Date:
[1841]

Description:

Original part from Vol. IV. Pp. 57-88. With 5 hand-colored lithographed plates; tissue guards. 27.5x17.7 cm (10¾x7"), original printed wrappers.

Original part from the first octavo edition of Audubon's The Birds of America, which was issued in 100 parts, and then in seven volumes. 


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Condition:
Blue stain and tide mark to lower corners, very good condition.


 
Item number:
302164
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