Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America

by John James Audubon

$9,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. xxiv, 512, 15, 1 ; xxxii, 588; xvi, 638; xxviii, 619; xxxix, 1 , 664pp. Half-titles. With the Prospectus and List of Subscribers in the rear of vol. 1. 5 vols. Royal 8vo 10-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches . Later half sheep and marbled boards, leather labels, spines gilt. Minor toning to half titles and terminal leaves. Small unobtrusive library stamps Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society . Else a clean, very good set. Ayer 20; Ellis 96 & 100;

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