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(BIRDS.) Audubon, John James.
Lake Finch / Prairie Finch / Brown Song
Sparrow. Plate CCCXC * Winter Wren / Rock Wren. Plate CCCLX.
Together, 2
hand-colored engraved and aquatint plates from the double elephant folio edition of The
Birds of America, each sheet trimmed and measuring 645x455 mm (25
1
/
2
x17
3
/
4
inches),
but with small remnant of the Whatman watermark visible; toned and some removable
staining in margins, images clean. London: Havell, 1837
[800/1,200]
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(BIRDS.) Audubon, John James.
Columbia Jay. Plate XCVI * Red-breasted
Merganser. Plate CCCCI.
Together, 2 color plates from the Amsterdam facsimile edition
of Audubon’s Birds of America, on full folio sheets (650x1000 mm); archivally corner
mounted; matted and framed. Amsterdam, 1971-72
[400/600]
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(BIRDS.) Audubon, John James.
Group of 18 hand-colored plates of birds,
15 of them from the First 8vo edition, the remaining from the Second 8vo edition.
NewYork, 1840s-50s
[350/500]
First: Little Night Owl. Plate 29 * Hawk Owl. Plate 27 * Great Black-backed Gull. Plate 450
* CommonTern. Plate 433 * Gull-billedTern. Plate 430 * Black-throated Guillemot. Plate 470
* Black Necked Still.Plate 354 * Glossy Ibis.Plate 358 * Snow Goose.Plate 381 * Hyperborean
Phalarope. Plate 340 * American Ptarmigan. Plate 300 * Townsend’s Surf Bird. Plate 322 *
Pectoral Sandpiper. Plate 329 * Cock of the Plains. Plate 297 * CanadianWoodpecker. Second:
Iceland or Gyr Falcon. Plate 19 * Rough-legged Buzzard. Plate 11 * Harlan’s Buzzard. Plate 8.
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(BIRDS.) Catesby, Mark.
Group
of 10 hand-colored engraved plates
of birds,
extracted from Sammlung
Verschiedener Ausländischer, on folio
sheets; some scattered staining in margins
away from images.
Nuremberg, circa 1760
[800/1,200]
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(BIRDS.) Elliot, Daniel Giraud.
Phasianus Colchicus * Meleagris
Ocellata.
Together, 2 hand-colored
lithographed plates picturing pheasants
from Elliot’s Monograph of the
Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants,
on folio sheets; first with chip at lower
left corner, well away from image, minor
removable soiling.
NewYork, 1870-72
[600/900]
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