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The Third Octavo Edition of Audubon's Masterpiece- The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories.
7 vol., 500 hand-coloured lithograph plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchock, R. Trembly and others re-issued by J. W. Audubon, tissue guards, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams, occasional light off-setting, plates clean and bright, publisher's original morocco, ornately blind-stamped.
This third octavo edition differed most notably from the first octavo in the addition of tinted lithographic-wash backgrounds to the plates.
8vo, New York, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1861.

First edition of the Baskerville Bible, 1760.
Exquisite fore-edge painting adorning a desirable Baskerville imprint. The Hereford Cathedral is pictured from the other side of the river Wye, with an old stone bridge leading to the church.
About 284 leaves. Final leaf 2M2; lacks gatherings x-2b and 2N-2Q, as often in other copies. 22.5x14 cm (9x5½"), period straight-grain crimson morocco, covers and turn-ins with gilt floral border, flat spine decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, fore-edge painting of Hereford Cathedral.
Binding gently rubbed and soiled, more so to spine, front board nearly loose; title page foxing, only minor spotting throughout; fore-edge painting very well preserved; very good or better.
Provenance: Bookplate of N. Brinsley Acworth, front flyleaf with inscription of John and Elizabeth Willett, Stoke, 1808.