AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. HARDCOVER, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. John James Audubon's Birds of America is a portal into the natural world. Printed between 1827 and 1838, it contains 435 life-size watercolors of North American birds (Havell edition), all reproduced from hand-engraved plates, and is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration.