John James Audubon’s Quadrupeds of North America – 3 Volume Set with 155 Lithographs

This three volume set of 155 octavo lithographs is John James Audubon’s The Quadrupeds of North America. This is the third octavo edition and was published in New York by V. G. Audubon between 1856 and 1860. The work is bound in publisher’s elaborately blind-stamped and gilt lettered full brown morocco with all edges gilt.

Quadrupeds was Audubon’s final great natural history work. His animal drawings are still considered some of the finest prints published in America. The folio edition of this work marked the first time that America’s animals were described and illustrated in one publication and the octavo publication continued that effort.

Audubon and his son, John Woodhouse, drew all of the quadrupeds in the work. Victor Gifford Audubon drew the backgrounds for many of the prints.