Description: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. American White Pelican. Plate 422 * Brown Pelican. Plate 423. Together two hand-colored lithographed plates from the first octavo edition of Audubon's Birds of America. Each sheet 10¼x6½ inches, wide margins retaining binding edge; the former with light toning and offsetting; accompanying descriptive text leaves. New York, 1840-1844