AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)


Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories, 7 vol., second octavo edition, half-titles in volumes 1-3, 500 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates by J. T. Bowen after Audubon, tissue guards, illustrations in the text, some browning and spotting to text leaves, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., spines uniformly faded, a few small scuffmarks (one slightly longer on lower cover of volume 6) [Anker 19; Nissen IVB 52; Sabin 2364], large 8vo (265 x 166mm.), New York, V. G. Audubon, 1856
|This second octavo edition of Audubon's Birds of America was the first to be issued after his death by his sons Victor and John, and unlike the first octavo edition has the backgrounds of the plates coloured.Provenance: Markree Library, bookplate; Sotheby's, 14 December 1953, to De Goederen (£95); acquired from him, February 1954.