The Birds of America
By John James Audubon, 1785-1851
John James Audubon (1785-1851) published The Birds of America between 1827 and 1838: 435 hand-coloured plates, printed on Double Elephant Folio sheets so that every bird could be shown at life size.
On 26 August 1833 Victor Gifford Audubon sold a complete set to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, which still keeps it. Heritage Prints makes its facsimiles from that set, at the size of the original sheet.
- Published
- 1827-1838
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Sheet
- 26½ × 39¼ in, the most common size
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 435 of the 435 plates
All 435 prints
Raven
$725
Blue Jay
$475
Canada Warbler
$350
Chipping Sparrow
$350
Red-breasted Nuthatch
$350
Black Vulture, or Carrion Crow
$725
Canada Jay
$475
Fox-coloured Sparrow
$350
Savanna Finch
$350
Hooded Warbler
$350
Pileated Woodpecker
$725
Downy Woodpecker
$475
Blue-bird
$350
White-crowned Sparrow
$350
Wood Pewee
$350
Ferruginous Thrush
$725
Mississippi Kite
$475
Warbling Flycatcher
$350
Yellow-throated Vireo
$350
Pewit Flycatcher
$350
Snowy Owl
$725
Blue Grosbeak
$475
Black & Yellow Warblers
$350
Green Black-capt Flycatcher
$350
Brown-headed Nuthatch
$350
White-headed Eagle
$725
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
$475
Cat Bird
$350
Great Crested Flycatcher
$350
Yellow-winged Sparrow
$350
American Robin
$725
Three-toed Woodpecker
$475
Black-poll Warbler
$350
Hemlock Warbler
$350
Blackburnian Warber
$350
Meadow Lark
$725
Yellow-breasted Chat
$475
Connecticut Warber
$350
Field Sparrow
$350
Pine Creeping Warbler
$350
Goshawk
$725
American Sparrow Hawk
$475
Golden-crowned Thrush
$350
Small Green Crested Flycatcher
$350
Yellow Red-poll Warbler
$350
Fish Crow
$725
Night Hawk
$475
Pine Swamp Warbler
$350
The complete set
The Birds of America is also available as a complete set: every plate we hold, as a facsimile at the original size, with a title page, a contents page and a certificate, in a Solander box.
Limited to 50 sets. Price on request.