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Auction archive: Lot number 285

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. [Vols. 1-5:] New York: J.J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44, [vols. 6-8:] New York: George R. Lockwood, [1871?]. 8 vols., larg...

Auction 05.12.1991
5 Dec 1991
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$13,200
Auction archive: Lot number 285

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. [Vols. 1-5:] New York: J.J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44, [vols. 6-8:] New York: George R. Lockwood, [1871?]. 8 vols., larg...

Auction 05.12.1991
5 Dec 1991
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$13,200
Beschreibung:

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. [Vols. 1-5:] New York: J.J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44, [vols. 6-8:] New York: George R. Lockwood, [1871?]. 8 vols., large 8vo, half brown morocco, marbled edges, worn, both covers of vol. 1 and upper cover of vol. 5 detached, occasional light foxing, browning to 3 plates in vol. 3 from inserts . First Octavo Edition of vols. 1-5, vols. 6-8 from the last complete edition, 500 lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand by Endicott and Bowen after Audubon; woodcuts in the text. Nissen/ IVB 51-2; Zimmer pp. 22 and 25-26; Wood, p. 208-9. Bookplate of P.B. Philipp. (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 285
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. [Vols. 1-5:] New York: J.J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44, [vols. 6-8:] New York: George R. Lockwood, [1871?]. 8 vols., large 8vo, half brown morocco, marbled edges, worn, both covers of vol. 1 and upper cover of vol. 5 detached, occasional light foxing, browning to 3 plates in vol. 3 from inserts . First Octavo Edition of vols. 1-5, vols. 6-8 from the last complete edition, 500 lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand by Endicott and Bowen after Audubon; woodcuts in the text. Nissen/ IVB 51-2; Zimmer pp. 22 and 25-26; Wood, p. 208-9. Bookplate of P.B. Philipp. (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 285
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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