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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, [c. 1870-1871]. 8 vols. 500 hand-colored tinted lithographed plates by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after John James and John Woodhouse Audubon printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, half-titles present in all volumes. Ayer/Zimmer pp. 25-26; Ellis/Mengel 105; Nissen IVB 52. [ With :] AUDUBON and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870]. 3 vols. 155 colored tinted lithographed plates after J. J. and J. W. Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, half-titles. Nissen ZBI 163 (earlier editions). Together 11 vols., royal 8vo, 263 x 172 mm. (10 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.), publisher's brown morocco, covers panel-stamped in blind with central lozenge, spines blind-panelled in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, g.e., turn-ins gilt, rubbed, occasional loss to leather at extremities, inner hinges cracked , Birds: discoloration to gutters of plates 141 (v.3) and 270 (v.4), very light foxing or spotting to upper margins of 5 or 6 plates , Quadrupeds: a few tiny spots to plate 66 (v.2), insignificant small spots to margins of 3 or 4 plates, dampstaining to fore-margins of pp. 121-124 in v.3, approximately 5 plates with fore-margin captions or imprints shaved, a few captions faintly printed, occasional very light spotting to text . George Lockwood's reprints of the octavo editions of the Birds and Quadrupeds , printed in the main from the same lithographic stones and stereotype plates as the earlier editions. The stones were destroyed in the 1870s by a fire in a Philadelphia warehouse. (11)