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AUDUBON, John James (1785-1841). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, [no date but circa 1870].

Auction 14.06.2005
14.06.2005
Schätzpreis
18.000 $ - 24.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
19.200 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 16

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1841). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, [no date but circa 1870].

Auction 14.06.2005
14.06.2005
Schätzpreis
18.000 $ - 24.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
19.200 $
Beschreibung:

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1841). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, [no date but circa 1870]. 7 volumes, royal 8 o (272 x 180 mm). Half-titles. 500 hand-colored lithographed plates with color-printed backgrounds by J.T. Bowen after Audubon, wood-engraved anatomical illustrations. (Plates 155 and 156 misnumbered '156' and '155': plate numbered '155' misbound opposite p.45 in vol.III, about six plates with small sections of tissue guards adhering, about four plates with light but appreciable spotting.) Contemporary green half morocco gilt by E. Rau of Philadelphia, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands emphasized with rules in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments (worn, volumes I, II, V and VIII with sections of spines lacking, most joints weak or split, extremities rubbed). A LARGE, ESSENTIALLY UNCUT, SET OF THE FINAL AND MOST ELUSIVE OCTAVO EDITION OF AUDUBON'S GREAT WORK - a very fine copy internally, cut only along the top edge with none of the problems of shaved images that are invariably encountered with smaller copies. Ron Tyler, in Audubon's Great National Work , manages to locate only two copies of this elusive edition. Tyler quotes a letter from the publisher's son, Richard B. Lockwood, noting that some time after 1870 the lithographed octavo plates were destroyed when they fell through the floor of the Philadelphia building where they were stored. Tyler Audubon's Great National Work , pp 129, 165 note 10; Bennett, p.5 (this and subsequent references for the first octavo edition); Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364; McGrath, p.50; Reese Stamped with a National Character 35 (ref.) (7)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 16
Auktion:
Datum:
14.06.2005
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1841). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, [no date but circa 1870]. 7 volumes, royal 8 o (272 x 180 mm). Half-titles. 500 hand-colored lithographed plates with color-printed backgrounds by J.T. Bowen after Audubon, wood-engraved anatomical illustrations. (Plates 155 and 156 misnumbered '156' and '155': plate numbered '155' misbound opposite p.45 in vol.III, about six plates with small sections of tissue guards adhering, about four plates with light but appreciable spotting.) Contemporary green half morocco gilt by E. Rau of Philadelphia, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands emphasized with rules in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments (worn, volumes I, II, V and VIII with sections of spines lacking, most joints weak or split, extremities rubbed). A LARGE, ESSENTIALLY UNCUT, SET OF THE FINAL AND MOST ELUSIVE OCTAVO EDITION OF AUDUBON'S GREAT WORK - a very fine copy internally, cut only along the top edge with none of the problems of shaved images that are invariably encountered with smaller copies. Ron Tyler, in Audubon's Great National Work , manages to locate only two copies of this elusive edition. Tyler quotes a letter from the publisher's son, Richard B. Lockwood, noting that some time after 1870 the lithographed octavo plates were destroyed when they fell through the floor of the Philadelphia building where they were stored. Tyler Audubon's Great National Work , pp 129, 165 note 10; Bennett, p.5 (this and subsequent references for the first octavo edition); Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364; McGrath, p.50; Reese Stamped with a National Character 35 (ref.) (7)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 16
Auktion:
Datum:
14.06.2005
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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