John James Audubon
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Work presents the complete set of Audubon's 655 Octavo birds and quadrupeds in full-size and full-color in a single volume. The bird and mammal sections have been separately arranged in families and species according to Audubon's own system. Two indices list the subjects by their English and Latin names.
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
First published in installments between 1827 and 1838, John James Audubon’s collection of life-sized watercolors of North American birds is the standard against which all wildlife illustration is measured. Fewer than 120 copies survive today, locked away in museums and private collections around the world. For this volume, the Natural History Museum in London disbound one of the two original editions it owns, and each of the 435 exquisite hand-colored...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The story of John James Audubon is a dramatic and surprising one. He saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone of his time, and came to stand for America-- the America of wilderness and wild things. Audubon was a self-taught artist and a self-made man whose life was rife with action and contradiction. He played the debonair European when he visited the American frontier, and then the wild woodsman in the drawing rooms of Europe....
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