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
435 prints
Blue-green Warbler
$350
Magnolia Warbler
$350
Red-tailed Hawk
$725
Chuckwills Widow
$475
Painted Finch
$350
Rice Bird
$350
Cuvier’s Kinglet
$350
Red-shouldered Hawk
$725
Loggerhead Shrike
$475
Hermit Thrush
$350
Chestnut-sided Warbler
$350
Carbonated Warbler
$350
Great Horned Owl
$725
Passenger Pigeon
$475
White-eyed Flycatcher
$350
Swamp Sparrow
$350
Rathbone Warbler
$350
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
$725
Red-winged Starling or Marsh Blackbird
$475
Republican, or Cliff Swallow
$350
Bay-breasted Warbler
$350
Henslow’s Sparrow
$350
Winter Hawk
$725
Swallow-tailed Hawk
$475
Wood Thrush
$350
Indigo Bird
$350
Le Petit Caporal
$350
Virginian Partridge
$725
Belted Kingfisher
$475
Great Carolina Wren
$350
Tyrant Flycatcher
$350
Prairie Titlark
$350
Fish Hawk or Osprey
$725
Whip-poor-will
$475
House Wren
$350
Blue-Grey Flycatcher
$350
Yellow Throated Warbler
$350
Black Warrior
$725
Florida Jay
$475
Autumnal Warbler
$350
Nashville Warbler
$350
Black & White Creeper
$350
Broad-winged Hawk
$725
Pigeon Hawk
$475
Seaside Finch
$350
Grass Finch, or Bay-winged Bunting
$350
Blue-eyed Yellow Warbler
$350
Columbia Jay
$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.