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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: V.G.Audubon, 1849-1851-1854, 3 Volumes 10 x 6 4/8 inches, 155 fine handcolored lithographed and chromolithographed plates by W.E.Hitchcock and R.Trembly after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, all tissue gards present, the plates clean and crisp, 2 half titles, new endpapers, 20th-century half blue morocco, blue cloth minor rubbing in all a fine set. First octavo edition, bound from the original parts. The 'Quadrupeds' was first published in three folio volumes between 1845 and 1848 as "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America", with 150 color plates. The first octavo edition, issued in response to the success of a similar edition of the 'Birds of America', between 1851 and 1854, contains all of the original 150 plates, reduced by means of the camera lucida, with 5 of the 6 supplemental octavo plates that were issued separately with the text in 1854.Audubon's enthusiasm at the start of the project was unbridled. Around 1840 he wrote to his collaborator, the… Read More