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BRASHER, REX. Birds and Trees of North America. 12 vols. 1929-32
BRASHER, REX. Birds and Trees of North America. 867 photogravure plates with pochoir and airbrush coloring after paintings by Brasher. 12 volumes. Oblong folio, 305x445 mm, original pictorial masonite with suede backs and corners, Volume 4 spine darkened and partly discolored; conspicuous dampstain in lower margin of last several plates in Volume 4, vertical scratches in leather on Volume 5 front cover, light foxing in upper margin of first plate in Volume 9, tissue guards lacking in Volumes 10 and 11; all but the last volume in variously worn original(?) 2-part board boxes with handwritten paper labels. [Kent, Connecticut], 1929-32
- Notes: first edition, limited to 500 [i. e., 100] numbered sets, signed by brasher on the title of each volume. The life work of a self-taught ornithological painter, Brasher''s collection far exceeded Audubon''s in scope, documenting over 1000 species and sub-species. Nissen IVB 134; Yale/Ripley 39.
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