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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: V.G. Audubon 1856. 7 vols., lacks half-titles to vols. 6 and 7, slight tissue adhesion to plates 344 and 394, text leaf 24/4 stained. Second Octavo Edition, 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon, by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, tinted backgrounds, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in the text. Nissen IVB 52. [ With :] AUDUBON, J.J. and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854 - 1854 - n.d. 3 vols., lacks half-title to vol. 3, slight tissue adhesion to plates 33 and 121, text leaves 26/3 and 4 in vol. 1 slightly creased, quire 30 in vol. 2 dust stained, 8/1 in vol. 3 stained, some text spotted in vols. 2 and 3. Mixed First and Second Octavo Edition, 155 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen. Nissen ZBI 163; McGill/Wood, p. 208. Together 10 vols., royal 8vo, 265 x 179mm. (10 7/16 x 7in.), a fine uniform set in original publisher's gilt and blind-stamped hard-grained black morocco, titled in blind on covers, spines in six compartments, gilt-lettered and richly decorated, g.e., upper inner joint of Birds vol. 1 cracked, extremities very slightly rubbed, two backstrips slightly faded. (10)