The Art of Audubon: The Complete Birds and Mammals
by Audubon, John James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0889024065
- ISBN 13
- 9780889024069
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Audubon, John James. xiii, 674pp. Illustrated throughout w colour plates. Prev owner name inked to ffep. Red boards, brown cloth quarterwrap spine w fine red lettering. Bumping to corners and tail. Binding square and sound. No DJ. Quarto. With an introduction by Roger Tory Peterson, this edition is the first to include 500 engravings of birds from Octavo edition (published in seven volumes in the 1840s) together with his 150 engravings of Quadrupeds.
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- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048635
- Title
- The Art of Audubon: The Complete Birds and Mammals
- Author
- Audubon, John James
- Illustrator
- Audubon, John James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0889024065
- ISBN 13
- 9780889024069
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited
- Place of Publication
- Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds - pictorial works. Mammals - pictorial works. Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996. Individual Artist, Birds & Birdwatching
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Natural History / Popular Science;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- The heel of the spine.
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