(Natural History: James W. Audubon) Hand colored engraving from Audubon’s 150 plate Imperial series, Plate CXLIX (No. 30): Sciurus Fremontii and Sciurus Fulginosus; Fremont’s Squirrel and Sooty Squirrel, folio (21 1/2 x 27 1/4 in.), “Drawn from Nature by J. W. Audubon.”

(Lithograph, Printing and color by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1848). A masterful set of life-size renderings.

Some marginal wear including minor well clear of the engraving, light foxing at lower right, else fine.

(EXA 3899) $1,400