AUDUBON, John James. PETERSON, Roger Tory and Virginia Marie PETERSON. The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio Audubon's Birds of America. NY: Abbeville Press, 1981. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PETERSONS.
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AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). PETERSON, Roger Tory and Virginia Marie PETERSON. The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio Audubon's Birds of America. New York: Abbeville Press, 1981.
Folio. Half-title, color frontispiece, profusion of color plates, numerous color illustrations. Original brown leather gilt (slight wear to extremities, a few minor scuffs to sides).
LIMITED EDITION, number 1592 of 2500 copies, SIGNED BY THE PETERSONS. Unlike early editions of Birds of America, this volume is organized in "a modern scientific classification sequence that somewhat parallels the evolutionary history of a genetically related group of organisms" (preface).
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
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