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
American Bittern
$475
Bemaculated Duck
$350
Little Auk
$350
Least Stormy-Petrel
$350
Great Auk
$725
Golden-eye Duck
$475
Ruddy Duck
$350
Long-legged Sandpiper
$350
American Widgeon
$350
Black-Throated Diver
$725
Smew or White Nun
$475
Gadwall Duck
$350
Least Water-Hen
$350
Rocky Mountain Plover
$350
Great Cinereous Owl
$725
Black-winged Hawk
$475
Chestnut-backed Titmouse
$350
Louisiana Tanager
$350
MacGillivray’s Finch
$350
Marsh Hawk
$725
American Magpie
$475
Pine Grosbeak
$350
Arkansaw Flycatcher
$350
Winter Wren
$350
Long-tailed, or Dusky Grouse
$725
Yellow billed Magpie
$475
Bohemian Chatterer
$350
White-winged Crossbill
$350
Lapland Long-spur
$350
Iceland, or Jer Falcon
$725
Band-tailed Pigeon
$475
Rock Grous
$350
Mountain Mocking Bird
$350
American Water Ouzel
$350
Cock of the Plains
$725
Common Buzzard
$475
Evening Grosbeak
$350
Sharp-skinned Hawk
$350
Lesser Red-Poll
$350
Trumpeter Swan (young)
$725
Scolpaceus Courlan
$350
Hawk Owl
$350
Ruff-necked Hummingbird
$350
Tengmalm’s Owl
$350
Snow Goose
$725
Sharp-Tailed Grous
$475
Long-Eared Owl
$350
Black-throated Bunting
$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.