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Pricing & History
19th century. Includes a hand-colored lithograph of Circus Aeruginosus (Marsh Harrier) from John Gould's Birds of Britain, published 1862-1873. Plate measures about 15" x 21.5" (sight), 26" x 32.5" (w/frame). Together with two first edition Audubon Royal Octavo plates: No. 121, Winter Wren, and No. 123, Marsh Wren. Credits lower left Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon F.R.S.F.L.S. and lower right Lithd Printed & Cold by J.T. Bowen Philada. In contemporary eglomisé mats and gilt frames; plates are about 6.25" x 10.5" (sight), 11.75" x 15.75" (w/frame). With a ca 1740 hand-colored engraving on wove paper by J Edwards of The Black Hawk from Hudsons Bay; in a later gold leaf frame; plate is 9.25" x 12.25" (sight), 15.5" x 19.5" (w/frame).Condition: 1st, some chipping lower right and small hole upper right; 2nd and 3rd, few chips, not laid down; 4th, normal toning from age, spot of chipping, not laid down.
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