An edition of The Birds of America (1827)

The birds of America

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An edition of The Birds of America (1827)

The birds of America

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The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio differs in a number of ways -- besides its dimensions -- from earlier editions of The Birds of America and from John James Audubon's original, massive Double-Elephant Folio, the heaviest volume of which weighs 56 pounds. These plates are organized not in the order that Audubon produced them for his subscribers but phylogenetically; that is, in a modern scientific classification sequence that somewhat parallels the evolutionary history of a genetically related group of organisms -- from the most primitive living examples to the most recently evolved -- in this case going from loons to sparrows and buntings. The numbering of our plates follows the taxonomical sequence of orders, families, and species in the Check-List of North American Birds prepared by the American Ornithologists' Union, as adapted and up-dated by the American Birding Association.



Also available in volumes 1-8:

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  2. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168100W
  3. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168088W
  4. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168109W
  5. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168104W
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Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
500

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Birds of America
Birds of America
1997, Wordsworth Editions
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Audubon's birds of America
Audubon's birds of America
1991, Abbeville Press
in English - 1st ed., tiny folios format / edited by Walton Rawls.
Cover of: Audubon birds of America
Audubon birds of America
1978, Crown Publishers
in English
Cover of: Birds of America.
Birds of America.
1950, Macmillan
in English - Popular ed.
Cover of: Audubon's Birds of America
Audubon's Birds of America
1950, Macmillan
in English
Cover of: The Birds of America
The Birds of America
January 1947, MacMillan Publishing Company.
Cover of: The birds of America
The birds of America
1946, The Macmillan company
in English
Cover of: The birds of America
The birds of America
1937, The Macmillan Company
in English

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Edition Notes

The colored plates are preceded by a reproduction of the title-page of one of the original portfolios dated 1827-1830, not included in the paging.
"This edition ... is limited to two thousand five hundred copies."
"Of the ... 500 plates, the first 435 were originally published by Audubon in London, during the years 1827-1838 ... a set believed to be the finest in uncut state in America ... has ... been followed in making the present reproductions. The final sixty-five subjects were painted at a later date ... They were first reproduced in the octavo Birds of America published by Audubon in New York (and J. B. Chevalier in Philadelphia), 1840-1844. The present plates 436-500 are reproduced from that book."--Note.

Published in
New York
Genre
Pictorial works.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
598.2973
Library of Congress
QL674 .A9 1937

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvi p., 500 col. pl. on 250 l.
Number of pages
500

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6360245M
Internet Archive
birdsofamerica00audu
LCCN
37028771
OCLC/WorldCat
506950, 271387768
Library Thing
536798

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