Birds.- Audubon (John James) The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories, 7 vol., re-issued by J. W. Audubon, 500 hand-coloured lithograph plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchock, R. Trembly and others, tissue guards, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams, occasional light off-setting, the odd scattered spot, contemporary morocco, ornately blind-stamped, extremities rubbed, g.e., [Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364; Zimmer p.22], 8vo, New York, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1861.
⁂ ?Third octavo edition. After completing the double-elephant folio edition at great expense in England, Audubon returned to the United States to produce a more profitable octavo version (originally with the Philadelphia firm of Bowen), and added 65 new images to the original plate count of the double-elephant folio.
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