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New York: V. G. Audubon, (1849)-1856. Early Edition. Hardcover. Owner name dated 1876 on first blank of each volume. Toning, foxing, and darkening, sometimes heavy, to the text and a bit less so to the plates. Binding quite nice. Overall Very Good. Early Octavo Edition of the first two volumes, lacking the third volume. Two volumes in publisher's full brown morocco leather elaborately embossed and stamped, the spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 7" x 10-3/4" with half-title pages. These two volumes complete with 100 hand-colored lithographs with tissue guards.

'Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America' is another notable work by John James Audubon, initially intended to complement 'The Birds of America'. It provides detailed illustrations and descriptions of North American mammals.