LITHOGRAPH ON PAPER, 6.5 inches X 10.25 inches (Sight)

         Very Good to Excellent condition with great coloring and no defects other than a few very tiny

fox spots, the size of a pinhead. A great copy of this underrated print, one of the more successful of Audubon's 

experiments with camera lucida, the birds and the pine cone having been reduced in size only slightly from 

the original Havell version, resulting in an almost lifesize image. With a wide margin mat this print 

would frame spectacularly. 

This is an original hand-colored print - #82 - from the royal octavo first edition of John 

James Audubon's Birds of America, published 1840-1844. 

Lithographed, printed, and colored by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1840-44.

         The first octavo edition was produced under the direct supervision of John 

James Audubon and features strictly hand-coloring.  

         The credits are in BLOCK LETTERS, as required for royal octavos numbered 1-150. 

Comes in a plastic protector, and will be sandwiched between wider foam boards for mailing.

Buyer to pay $8 Priority Mail shipping within U.S. International shipments made at $18 via Priority Intl. 

Buying more than one octavo-sized print? Additional octavos ship free.