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
Canada Goose
$725
Red-Throated Diver
$475
Fresh Water Marsh Hen
$350
Salt Water Marsh Hen
$350
Virginia Rail
$350
Summer or Wood Duck
$725
Booby Gannet
$475
Esquimaux Curlew
$350
Wilson’s Plover
$350
Least Bittern
$350
Great Blue Heron
$950
Common Gull
$475
Puffin
$350
Razor Bill
$350
Hyperborean phalarope
$350
Wood Ibis
$725
Louisiana Heron
$475
Foolish Guillemot
$350
Black Guillemot
$350
Piping Plover
$350
Mallard Duck
$725
White Ibis
$475
Pied Oyster-catcher
$350
Kittiwake Gull
$350
Kildeer Plover
$350
Whooping Crane
$725
Pin tailed Duck
$475
American Green winged Teal
$350
Scaup Duck
$350
Ruddy Plover
$350
Long billed Curlew
$725
Hooded Merganser
$475
Sora or Rail
$350
Tufted Duck
$350
Sooty Tern
$350
Night Heron or Qua Bird
$725
Great Esquimaux Curlew
$475
Great Marbled Godwit
$350
American Coot
$350
Roseate Tern
$350
Black Backed Gull
$725
Snowy Heron or White Egret
$475
American Snipe
$350
Common Gallinule
$350
Brunnich’s Guillemot
$350
Eider Duck
$725
Velvet Duck
$475
American Pied-bill Dobchick
$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.