Accession number
PML 44068-70
Creator
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Published
New-York : Published by V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1952.
Notes
Originally issued in 30 parts.
Library has Audubon's original drawings for plates 2, 17, 22, 35, 42 & 54 in Print Room.
Accompanying text volumes, also 3 volumes, cataloged separately.
Each part (no.) in the original brown paper covers, as issued. Title pages and other preliminaries issued with no. 1 (v. 1), no. 20 (v. 2) and no. 31 (v. 3).
Vol. 1: viii, 383, [1] p., L leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 334 p., leaves of plates li-c; v. 3: [2], v, 348 p., leaves of plates ci-clv.
Illustrations: Full-page hand-colored lithographs, drawn on stone by Wm. E. Hitchcock and others, chiefly "lith., printed & col.d by J.T. Bowen, Phil.," after J.J. Audubon (all in v. 1 and 28 in v. 2) or J.W. Audubon (22 in v. 2 and all in v. 3).
Each volume contains two preliminary leaves and fifty colored plates.
Plates LXXXVI, XCI, XCIII-XCVIII, C, CII-CV, CVII-CVIII, CX-CXIX, CXXI-CI drawn from nature by J.W. Audubon.
Plate [CXXIX] numbered CXXIV.
Library has Audubon's original drawings for plates 2, 17, 22, 35, 42 & 54 in Print Room.
Accompanying text volumes, also 3 volumes, cataloged separately.
Each part (no.) in the original brown paper covers, as issued. Title pages and other preliminaries issued with no. 1 (v. 1), no. 20 (v. 2) and no. 31 (v. 3).
Vol. 1: viii, 383, [1] p., L leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 334 p., leaves of plates li-c; v. 3: [2], v, 348 p., leaves of plates ci-clv.
Illustrations: Full-page hand-colored lithographs, drawn on stone by Wm. E. Hitchcock and others, chiefly "lith., printed & col.d by J.T. Bowen, Phil.," after J.J. Audubon (all in v. 1 and 28 in v. 2) or J.W. Audubon (22 in v. 2 and all in v. 3).
Each volume contains two preliminary leaves and fifty colored plates.
Plates LXXXVI, XCI, XCIII-XCVIII, C, CII-CV, CVII-CVIII, CX-CXIX, CXXI-CI drawn from nature by J.W. Audubon.
Plate [CXXIX] numbered CXXIV.
Description
31 pts. (3 volumes) : 155 color plates ; 71 x 55 cm
Provenance
From the collection of Henry S. Morgan.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt.
Classification
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