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
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
Harlequin Duck
$475
Red-necked Grebe
$350
Dusky Petrel
$350
Golden Plover
$350
Canvas backed Duck
$725
Dusky Duck
$475
Bartram Sandpiper
$350
Turn-Stone
$350
Purple Gallinule
$350
Great Northern Diver or Loon
$725
Blue Crane or Heron
$475
Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe
$350
Great Tern
$350
Spotted Sandpiper
$350
American White Pelican
$950
Long-tailed Duck
$475
Blue-winged Teal
$350
Black-headed Gull
$350
Read-breasted Sandpiper
$350
Black-bellied Darter
$725
Black or Surf Duck
$475
American Avocet
$350
Lesser Tern
$350
Little Sandpiper
$350
Roseate Spoonbill
$725
Red-headed Duck
$350
Black Skimmer or Shearwater
$350
Bonapartian Gull
$350
Buffet-headed Duck
$350
Gannet
$725
Shoveler Duck
$475
Long-tailed Avocet
$350
Yellow-breasted Rail
$350
Ring Plover
$350
Goosander
$725
Pied Duck
$475
Green Heron
$350
Black-belled Plover
$350
Red-breasted Snipe
$350
Yellow crowned Heron
$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.