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
Yellow Red-poll Warbler
$350
Fish Crow
$725
Night Hawk
$475
Pine Swamp Warbler
$350
Sharp-tailed Finch
$350
Red-eyed Vireo
$350
Turkey Buzzard
$725
White-breasted Black-capped Nuthatch
$475
Yellow Rump Warbler
$350
Tennessee Warbler
$350
Black-throated Blue Warbler
$350
American Crow
$725
Rusty Grakle
$475
American Swift
$350
Cardinal Grosbeak
$350
Carolina Titmouse
$350
Brasilian Caracara Eagle
$725
Zenaida Dove
$475
Palm Warbler
$350
Tawny Thrush
$350
Bachmans Finch
$350
Rough-legged Hawk
$725
Key West Dove
$475
Forked-tailed Flycatcher
$350
Mangrove Cuckoo
$350
Pipiry Flycatcher
$350
Barn Owl
$725
Blue-headed Pigeon
$475
Barn Swallow
$350
Olive-sided Flycatcher
$350
Nuttall’s lesser-marsh Wren
$350
Spotted Grouse
$725
White crowned Pigeon
$475
Orange-crowned Warbler
$350
Wood Wren
$350
Pine Finch
$350
Golden Eagle
$725
Ground Dove
$475
American Golden crested Wren
$350
Mangrove Humming Bird
$350
Bachman’s Warbler
$350
Pinnated Grouse
$725
Boat-tailed Grackle
$475
Tree Sparrow
$350
Snow Bunting
$350
Yellow bellied Woodpecker
$350
Willow Grouse, or large Ptarmigan
$725
Great American Shrike
$475
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.