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AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)
Large billed Puffin, Mormon Glacialis. Leach., R. Havell, 1836

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)

Large billed Puffin, Mormon Glacialis. Leach., hand-coloured engraving with etching and aquatint, on paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1836", with full margins, plate 370 x 530mm., sheet 610 x 880mm., R. Havell, 1836

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Plate 293 ("No. 59") from the Havell edition of The Birds of America. "None were seen by myself or my companions on our way to Labrador, or in that country, so that I am unable to say anything respecting the habits of this remarkable bird. The specimens from which my figures were taken were kindly lent to me by Mr. Gould of London, whose name must be familiar to you as a successful cultivator of Ornithology" (Audubon, text accompanying plate 293).

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