'Birds of America' is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also one of the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for 7.3 million, which is a world record.
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Rounded out by hundreds of historical and ornithological notes and beautiful illustrations, and with a foreword by distinguished photographer and conservationist Subhankar Banerjee, Audubon at Sea is the most comprehensively annotated ...
Retraces Audubon's travels through North America in the early 1800s, and the authors' journal
John James Audubon devoted his entire life to his great obsession: to capture in pencil and paint the birds of America. His work was unique, for he managed to not...
Audubon to Lucy Bakewell Audubon, 1 October 1826, in The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon, edited by Alice Ford (New York, 1987), 238. 3. Three of Audubon's journals have been published in one work: Maria R. Audubon, Audubon and His ...
Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1814 (1966 Readex Microprint reprint). Dallett, Francis James. “Citizen Audubon: A Documentary Discovery,” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. XXI, nos.
"Here is the most comprehensive selection of Audubon's writings ever published, along with a spectacular portfolio of his drawings. The "Mississippi River Journal," the foremost record of an American artist's...
Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of...
From existing materials, Audubon's own writings, letters and original manuscripts in the National Audubon Society's collection, this personal biography covers his entire life.