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Day 1: Fine Art & Decorative Works

Thu, Jul 16, 2015 05:00PM EDT - Fri, Jul 17, 2015 05:00PM EDT
Lot 110

The Birds of America from Drawings

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Bid Increments

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$100,000 $10,000

Made in the United States and Their Territories by John James Audubon New York: published by George R. Lockwood, 1870-71, eight volumes, 7th octavo edition, with 500 well-printed and finely hand-colored plates (complete), this edition includes 24 species not pictured in the first edition, finely bound in full contemporary brown morocco, elaborately blind-stamped and decorated with five raised bands, gilt spine lettering, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon markers in each volume, 10-3/4 x 7-1/2 in. near fine in full leather with minute amounts of rubbing to the leather. Provenance: Donald Heald, New York; Atlanta, Georgia Collection

Condition

near fine in full leather with minute amounts of rubbing to the leather