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
Red-breasted Merganser
$725
Black-throated Guillemot
$475
Golden-eye Duck
$350
Eared Grebe
$350
Semipalmated Sandpiper
$350
Trumpeter Swan
$725
Dusky Albatros
$475
American Scoter Duck
$350
Havell’s Tern
$350
Marsh Tern
$350
Common American Swan
$725
Violet-green Cormerant
$350
Californian Partridge
$350
Golden-winged Warbler
$350
Brown Creeper, Californian Nuthatch
$350
Red-bellied Woodpecker
$725
Audubon’s Woodpecker
$475
American Ptarmigan, White-tailed Grous
$350
Little Tawny Thrush, Ptiliogony’s Townsendi, Canada Jay
$350
Prairie Starling
$350
Brown Pelican
$725
Rough-legged Falcon
$475
Plumed Partridge, Thick-legged Partridge
$350
Lazuli Finch, Crimson-necked Bull Finch, et al
$350
Columbian Humming Bird
$350
Californian Vulture
$725
White-legged Oyster Catcher. Slender-billed Oyster Catcher
$350
Townsend’s Sandpiper
$350
Western Duck
$350
Slender-billed Guillemot
$350
American Flamingo
$950
Burrowing Owl
$475
Bullock’s Oriole. Baltimore Oriole. Mexican Goldfinch. Varied Thrush.
$350
Little Tyrant Flycatcher
$350
Columbian Water Ouzel. Arctic Water Ouzel.
$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.