AUDUBON - QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 1851 PLATE # LXI, RACCOON

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The Quadrupeds of North America. AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Published by New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1851-1854., 1854 FIRST EDITION 155 fine hand colored lithographed and Chromolithographed plates by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and J. W. Audubon , First octavo edition, bound from the original parts. The 'Quadrupeds' was first published in three Imperial folio volumes between 1845 and 1848, as "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America", with 150 colour 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 text in 1854. OFFERED HERE IS 1 PLATE, FROM AUDUBON'S QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA LOW STARTING BID