Print, 8vo, color lithograph, plate LXVIII, matted, and laid down (attached to backboard). Ample margins, normal aging, some slight foxing; otherwise very good or better. John James Audubon (1765-1851), after coming to America around 1803 would become a noted naturalist and artist. His most well known work, The Birds of America, was produced between 1826-1838 and sold by subscription. The folio edition of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, was also sold by subscription, and published from 1845-1848. The octavo size version of this work was first published from 1849-1854. This plate of the Fox Squirrel, which shows a group of squirrels on a tree, is clean and bright and was from a set published by J.T. Bowen. ANB. Audoboninfo website. # 103048 $100. Seller Inventory # 103048

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Title: Quadrupeds of North America: Fox Squirrel.

Publisher: J.T. Bowen, 1850s., Philadelphia:

Publication Date: 1850

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