The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories (Volume 5 - see description) by Audubon, John James - 1842

New York: J. J. Audubon. Good. 1842. Full-Leather. Leather binding is poor -- front cover detached and spine worn, The page block is very good -- tight and clean with light foxing on some pages but most bright -- all plate pages bright. Size is 10" by 6.25". The title page and table of contents identify as Volume V while the spine is labelled Vol. IV. The contents begin with page 209 of Volume IV and continues through page 260. At that point Volume V begins with page 29 and continues to end with page 345. About half of the plates are missing (30 hand-colored plates are present . Plates present are as follows: Vol 4, #256 Ivory Billed Woodpecker / #258 Canadian Woodpecker / #259 Phillip's Woodpecker / #262 Hairy Woodpecker / #264 Red-cockaded Woodpecker / #265 Audubon's Woodpecker / Vol 5, #286 Carolina Turtle Dove / #289 Common American Partridge / #301 Rock Ptarmigan / #302 White-tailed Ptarmigan / #303 Purple Gallinule / #304 Common Gallinule / #305 American Coot / #312 Scolopaceous Courlan / #315 Black-bellied Plover / #316 American Golden Plover / #318 Rocky Mountain Plover / #322 Townsend's Surf-bird / #324 American Oyster Catcher / #331 Buff-breasted Sand-piper / #335 Schinz's Sandpiper / #342 Spotted Sandpiper / #343 Solitary Sandpiper / #344 Yellow Shanks Snipe / #345 Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe / #346 Greenshank / #347 Semipalmated Snipe Willet or Stone Curlew / #348 Great Marbled Godwit / #349 Hudsonian Godwit / #350 Wilson's Snipe -- Common Snipe. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .