Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2621BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common Flying Squirrel. [from] Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: Bowen, 1845-48.
Hand-colored lithograph, framed, 21 x 26 1/2 in.; top left: No. 6.; top right: plate XXVIII; bottom left: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S. F.L.S.; center: Pteromys Volucella, GMEL. Common Flying Squirrel. Natural Size, 1, 2, Males. 3, 4, Females, 5. Young; bottom right: Lit. Printed & Cold. by J.T. Bowen, Philada. 1843.
Estimate $1,200-1,500