Audubon the Naturalist of the New World, His Adventures and Discoveries
Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1864. Hardcover. 12mo. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #007934
Revised and corrected with additions and illustrated with engravings by J.W. Orr from original designs. Full brown cloth with gilt decoration to spine and blind stamped panels to boards. xxiv, 311 pp. B&W frontis & engraved title. Cloth is faded, worse at spine. A few stains to cloth. Some damp staining to interior margins, light foxing and rust staining sporadically throughout commensurate with age. Several ink ownership inscriptions to front endpapers. "A rare combination of beauty with grandeur characterizes the aspects of Creation in the New World. Varied as they are, yet ever peculiarly rich and often sublime, it would seem indeed as though nature had designed to cast this her favoured land in a fresh mould of marvellous beauty...With fresh energy [Audubon] reutrned from France to the glorious woods of the New World. Inspired by their atmosphere, he commenced again the studies of his early youth, with even more enthusiasm than before his sojourn in France; which enabled him to complete the marvellous collections of drawing perpetuated in the 'Birds of America.'" (from Chapter 1).
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