Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)Herrick, Francis Hobart
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Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Herrick, Francis Hobart
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
_The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America._ 3 vols., roy. 8vo.
Published by J. J. Audubon and V. G. Audubon, New York, 1846-1854.
Issued to subscribers, as text to foregoing:
Vol. I. Pp. i-xvi, 1-390. Text only. Published by J. J. Audubon,
New York, 1846.
Vol. I (European ed.). The same as foregoing with imprint of Wiley
& Putnam, London, 1847.
Vol. II. Pp. 1-336. Text only. Published by V. G. Audubon, 1851.
Vol. III. Pp. i-vi, 1-350. Text, with 6 colored plates. Published
by V. G. Audubon, 1854.
7. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, F. R. S. (&c., &c.), and BACHMAN, REV. JOHN, D.
D. (&c., &c.):
_The Quadrupeds of North America_ [in "Miniature"]. 3 vols., roy.
8vo., with 155 colored plates. Published by V. G. Audubon, New
York, 1854.
Vol. I. Nos. 1-10, pll. i-l, pp. i-viii, 1-384.
Vol. II. Nos. 11-20, pll. li-c, pp. 1-334.
Vol. III. Nos. 21-31, pll. ci-clv, pp. i-vi, 1-348.
First and only edition of the text and plates reduced to octavo size;
most of the plates lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen. In
Vol. I the introduction is cut down, the list of subscribers omitted,
and tables of contents and genera placed at end; Vol. II is same as
first edition, with omission of subscribers' lists; Vol. III same
as in first edition, except for omission of table of genera at back.
All plates in Vol. I, and 28 in Vol. II, or 78 in all, are by J. J.
Audubon, and 77 are by J. W. Audubon.
8. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, F. R. S. (&c., &c.):
_The Birds of America_, from Drawings made in the United States
and their Territories. Vols. I-VII, roy. 8vo. Published by V. G.
Audubon, New York, 1856.
The second octavo edition of the _Birds_, with 500 plates, published
without change, except in pagination. The portrait of Audubon, which
appears in this or in some of the later editions, was engraved by H. B.
Hall after the painting by Henry Inman.
9. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES:
_The Birds of America_; from Original Drawings by John James
Audubon, Fellow of the Royal Societies of London & Edinburgh, &c.,
&c., &c. Reissued by J. W. Audubon. 1 vol. of 106 double elephant
folio plates, in chromolithography, by J. Bien, 180 Broadway,
representing 151 of the original copper plates. Roe Lockwood &
Son, Publishers. New York, 1860.
The only (and partial) reissue of the original folio; plates, in many
instances double, renumbered to correspond with the octavo edition,
with backgrounds often simplified or changed, and much inferior to
the original hand-colored engravings; the plates are dated "1858" or
"1859." Checked by the Civil War, the residual stock of plates found
a ready sale thirty years later. Citation from copy in the Public
Library, New York City. (See Appendix III, Document No. 3).
10. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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