$7,380
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of America, Abbeville Press Facsimile. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Four atlas portfolio volumes containing 435 double elephant folio unbound color plates; seven octavo text volumes bound in the original green leather gilt; consisting of: a facsimile edition of Audubon's 1831-1849 Ornithological Biography , in five volumes; a facsimile edition of Waldemar H. Fries's 1973 The Double Elephant Folio ; and Roger Tory and Virginia Marie Peterson's Commentaries on Audubon's Birds of America . [Together with] The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio Audubon's Birds of America , edited by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson, New York: Abbeville Press, [1981], illustrated in color throughout, bound in half leather, buckram boards, in the original illustrated publisher's slipcase. This limited edition full-size facsimile with full-color reproductions of the complete set of original ornithological illustrations is one of 350 sets printed; it is a reproduction of the National Audubon Society copy.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-11-15
