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
Tufted Auk
$350
Arctic Tern
$350
Brown Pelican
$725
Florida Cormorant
$475
Jager
$350
Wilson’s Phalarope
$350
Red Phalarope
$350
Purple Heron and Reddish Egret
$725
Double-crested Cormorant
$475
Hudsonian Godwit
$350
Horned Grebe
$350
Fork-tail Petrel
$350
Whooping Crane
$725
Tropic Bird
$475
Pigmy Curlew
$350
Fulmar Petrel
$350
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
$350
Common Cormorant
$725
Arctic Jager
$475
American Woodcock
$350
Greenshank
$350
Stormy Petrel
$350
Frigate Pelican
$725
Richardson’s Jager
$475
Cayenne Tern
$350
Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet
$350
Noddy Tern
$350
King Duck
$725
Hutchins’s Barnacle Goose
$475
Schinz’s Sandpiper
$350
Sandwich Tern
$350
Black Tern
$350
Great White Heron
$725
White-winged silvery Gull
$475
Wandering Shearwater
$350
Purple Sandpiper
$350
Fork-tailed Gull
$350
White-fronted Goose
$725
Ivory Gull
$475
Yellow Shank
$350
Solitary Sandpiper
$350
Red backed Sandpiper
$350
Herring Gull
$725
Crested Grebe
$475
Large Billed Puffin
$475
Pectoral Sandpiper
$350
Manks Shearwater
$350
Barnacle Goose
$725
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.