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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES and Rev . JOHN BACHMAN. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York: J.J. Audubon (---V.G. Audubon), 1845-54. 6 vols., comprising plates: 3 vols., atlas folio, 685 x 530 mm. (27 x 20 7/8in.) and text: 3 vols., royal 8vo, 264 x 174 mm (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.). Plates in nineteenth-century English green half morocco gilt, g.e., by J. Wright; text in late nineteenth-century American purple half-morocco gilt, g.e.; extremities of plate volumes with slight bruising and rubbing . FIRST EDITION except text volume III which is from the first octavo edition of Quadrupeds , as often). Atlas with 150 finely colored lithographed plates after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon the backgrounds after Victor Audubon, by J.T. Bowen, 3 lithographed title-pages and 3 pages of letterpress contents. Plate CXXIX misnumbered CXXIV. Text with 6 finely colored lithographed plates after J.W. Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock (nos. 124, 151-155). Half-titles in vols. 1 and 3 (not required in text vol. 3). A FINE COPY WITH BRILLIANT COLORING, THE FOLIO PLATES IN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN CONDITION. The Atlas titles and contents leaves are foxed (vol.2 with a 1 1/4 inch closed marginal tear) and have single soft vertical creases. Plate 137 has a tiny repair to lower blank margin. Sheets of text volumes are a little dark. The Viviparous Quadrupeds is also found bound up in two volumes, often without the title for vol. 3. These two-volume sets are a later issue and their coloring is less vivid than in the three-volume issue, as here. Bennett, p. 5; McGill/Wood, p. 208; Nissen ZBI 162. (6) Provenance : Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966) (6)