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The quadrupeds of North America / by John James Audubon and John Bachman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection QL715 .A93 1849b no.9 ephemera from other nos.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mammals--North America.
- Mammals.
- North America.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 31 parts, CLV leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : V.G. Audubon, [1849?-1854?]
- Notes:
- Information through collation devised from printed wrappers of nos. 21 and 22, as well as NUC pre-56, v. 25, p. 601. Lower wrappers bear the following prospectus: "The present will be a miniature copy of the large edition ... Each number will contain five plates ... the work will be completed in thirty numbers ..."
- Originally published with title: The viviparous quadrupeds of North America, 1845-1853.
- Various plates drawn from nature by J.W. Audubon.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has pt. 9 only and wrappers for pts. 6-8, 10-19, 20 (2 copies), 21, 22? (printed "21" on front wrapper corrected in ms. to "22"), and 23-28; title leaves, tables of contents and indexes from v. 1 (1851), v. 2 (1851) and v. 3 (1854) taken from a nonce volume laid in.
- OCLC:
- 8097494
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