The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories
$36,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available
Original publisher's full blindstamped brown morocco, spines with raised bands forming six compartments, blind tooled and lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt An exemplary copy in the publisher’s deluxe full morocco binding of Audubon’s Birds of America, second octavo edition, in outstanding condition. The second octavo edition was the first to be published after Audubon's death, by his son Victor, and the first to incorporate coloured
- Binding: Leather
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