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Audubon, John James THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES. NEW YORK: J. J. AUDUBON, PHILADELPHIA: J. B. CHEVALIER, 1840-1844 7 volumes, 8vo (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.; 270 x 172 mm). 500 handcolored lithographed plates after Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly, and others, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, with tissue guards, numerous wood-engraved text illustrations, half-titles, and list of subscribers in each volume; heavy spotting in first volume preliminaries, with dampstain in lower gutter margin affecting first few leaves and marginal spotting elsewhere in that vol not affecting plates, occasional spotting to text and tissue guards in other vols, generally clean internally. Contemporary red three-quarter morocco and marbled boards; extremities and spines worn, dampstains affecting lower portion of spines in two vols, vol 7 rebacked with original spine laid in.