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Audubon's great national work. The royal octavo edition of The Birds of America
by Tyler, Ron
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. Edition limited to 225 copies, 4to, pp. [iii]-xvii, [3], 213, [3]; illustrated throughout, much in color; original green cloth-backed pastepaper-covered boards, contained in a green cloth clamshell case with printed paper label on spine, the case with a recessed tray containing Original Plates from the First and Second editions of The Birds of America with the Original Text Describing the Bird Depicted, containing 3 leaves of text and 2 hand-colored plates, in this case, the Sparrow Falcon. The definitive work on the octavo editions of Audubon's Birds, with 2 original plates.
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- Rulon-Miller Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61488
- Title
- Audubon's great national work. The royal octavo edition of The Birds of America
- Author
- Tyler, Ron
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. Thomas Taylor
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Audubon , Ornithology , ,
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