| Some Interesting Natural History Collectibles |
PLATE 16 – CANADA LYNX – Best 50 Facsimiles from J. J. Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America from Field Museum collection, Oppenheimer edition, framed to museum standards. $625 PLATE 21 – GREY FOX - Best 50 Facsimiles from J. J. Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America from Field Museum collection, Oppenheimer edition, framed to museum standards. $625 PLATE 49 – THE GREAT CRESTED WOODPECKER (IMPERIAL WOODPECKER) – The only US engraving of this large bird – now extinct – shown by John Cassin in his 1856 Illustrations. $950 TWO EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS with articles on Audubon, The New Yorker, March 3, 1838, reprinted an article from the Boston Morning Post, and Gleason's Pictorial Boston, dated may 6, 1854, front page article and lithograph of likeness of Audubon, commemorating his birth. $75 RESTRIKE OF AUDUBON PLATE 64, SWAMP SPARROW - In 1968 the New York Botanical Garden issued two restrikes, the Swamp Sparrow and Plate 194, Hudson Bay Titmouse. Only 300 copies of each image were issued. They measure 23 x 30 inches and have a deep plate mark from the original copper plate. Hand colored, French mat, ready to frame. A scarce collector's item. $375 IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER – Early engraving of this now extinct bird by J. Brown and J. Stewart. Engraving includes Green, Spotted, and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. $450 GREAT BLUE HERON/SNOWY HERON/OSPREY - Full-size facsimiles of Audubon's drawings as published by M. Bernard Loates. Multi-colored lithographs using up to 53 colors, acid-free watermarked paper. $150 each BUFFALO ENGRAVING - Original black and white engraving of "Buffel," 10 x 14 inches, 1600's, museum matted, silver frame. $225 NESOUAQUOIT - A Fox Chief, folio, stunning color, published by E. C. Biddle, Philadelphia, PA, 1845, from the folio edition of McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Painted by C. B. King, on stone by A. Newsom, Lehman and Duval, lithographers. $1,800 CANADA GOOSE - Folio restrike from original copper plate engraving of this important print. Struck in 1985, American Museum of Natural History, N.Y., limited to 125 copies. $2,750 CATESBY'S LILY - From The Botanical Magazine, published in London, England, Vol. III, 1794. Copper plate hand-colored engraving, with text. Framed. $175 QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA - Two incomplete parts from Octavo edition, 1849. Part 17 - three hand-colored plates remaining, including Red Texan Wolf. $200. Part 2 - four hand-colored plates remaining including Eastern Chipmunk and Carolina Grey Squirrel. $450 COMMON MOUSE – Best 50 Facsimiles of Plate 90 from J. J. Audubon’s The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, from Field Museum, Chicago, IL. Full sheet, excellent color, framed to museum standards. $650 PENGUIN NEST – Five life-size wood carvings in nest group, Common Penguin found along northern US coast. Each bird 12 inches, striking. $425 KEOKUK – McKenney and Hall lithograph, hand colored, octavo edition, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 1848-50, framed. $475 PEHRISKA-RUHPU – Fearsome warrior, depicted by Karl Bodmer in Travels in the Interior of North America, 1839. Small hand colored 19 th century reproduction, framed with French mat. $150 JOHN GOULD LITHOGRAPH – Lovely image of 1800’s Gould Hummingbird – Hypuroptila Buffoni – two birds in flight, one perched around blooming cactus plant. $900 |
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