Books & Stationery
Audubon's Birds of America
- Item Number
- 149
- Estimated Value
- 185 USD
- Sold
- 170 USD to ascuro31
- Number of Bids
- 14 - Bid History
Item Description
A magnificent volume of John James Audubon's world famous ornithological engravings.
This marvelous edition of Audubon's Birds of America displays all 435 of Audubon's brilliant handcolored engravings in exquisite reproductions taken from the original plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the rare Double Elephant Folio. Although many attempts have been made to re-create the magnificent illustrations in Audubon's masterpiece, nothing equals the level of fidelity or scale achieved in this high-quality edition.
Organized and annotated by Roger Tory Peterson, America’s best-known ornithologist, and issued with the full endorsement and cooperation of the Audubon Society, this magnificent volume is as thorough in scientific classification as it is beautiful. Peterson's fascinating introduction places Audubon in the context of the history of American ornithological art and also reproduces a wide sampling of the work of Audubon's notable predecessors and disciples, including Peterson's own justly famous paintings.
This new systematic arrangement of the prints, complete with informative commentaries about each bird, made it possible to correct many of the problems or errors in Audubon's original edition revealed by later scholarship. The colorful captions in the back provide fascinating commentaries on each featured bird.
RELEASE DATE: January 22, 1990
- Hardcover 694 pages
- 11.75 x 15 inches
- 482 full-color illustrations
- 435 duotones
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