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hand-colored engraved plates after T. R. Peale, A. Rider, and J. J. Audubon. 4 volumes. Large 4to, 375x295 mm, contemporary 1/2 green leather gilt, spine ends and extremities rubbed; text variously foxed, plates generally clean, last plate loose and slightly worn along fore edge. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1825-33 FIRST EDITION. The illustration of the female great crow-blackbird is the first published ornithological plate after Audubon. Nissen Birds 116.