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John James Audubon was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and
painter. The Birds of America contains 435 life-size watercolours
of North American birds, some of which reproduced here in our
QuickNotes notecard set. 20 notecards and envelopes, 5 each of 4
images. Packaged in a sleek, sturdy flip-top box with magnetic
closure. Cards printed on coated paper stock to bring out their
full colour. Cards and envelopes bundled together with a paper
belly band inside each box. Box measurements 143 x 120 x 34mm.
The Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books
ever produced and also the most valuable - a complete set sold at
auction in December 2010 for GBP7.3 million, which is a world
record for a book. First published in double elephant size
(approximately a metre tall) in the first half of the nineteenth
century, it is famous for its stunning life-size illustrations of
birds set within landscaped backgrounds. The book was issued
inparts over 11 years and only around 200 completed sets were ever
produced. Less than 120 of these survive today, locked away in
museums, galleries and private collections around the world. To
create this edition of Audubon's masterpiece, the Natural History
Museum's own original edition was disbound and each of the 435
beautiful hand-coloured prints was specially photographed. The
artworks are accompanied by the scientific descriptions that were
used in the original The Birds of America and there is also a new
introduction by David Allen Sibley.
John James Audubon is arguably America's most widely recognized and
collected artist. His Birds of America has been reproduced often,
beginning with the double elephant folio printed by Havill in
England, followed by a much smaller "Octavo" edition printed in
Philadelphia and sold by subscription. After Audubon's death, his
family arranged with the New York printer Julius Bien to produce
another elephant folio edition, this time by the new
chromolithographic process. It too would be sold by subscription,
but the venture, begun in 1858, was brought to an abrupt end by the
Civil War. Only 150 plates were produced, and the number remaining
today is slight; they are among the rarest and most sought after
Audubon prints. Bound in cloth with a full cloth slipcase, this
beautifully produced book is the first complete reproduction of
Bien chromolithographs and will become the centerpiece of any bird
lover's library.
Natural history illustration is a popular choice for artists and
perfect for developing colour technique.
First published in the middle of the nineteenth century, following
years of research and field study, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of
North America (its original title) became the outstanding
illustrated work on American mammals of its time and is still
considered by many to include the finest animal prints published in
North America. The book included many frontier animals never
depicted before and helped to increase appreciation of American
nature around the world. This edition of Audubon's classic work has
been directly reproduced from an original copy held by the Library
of the Natural History Museum, London. All the mammals' current
scientific names have been included in the reference section at the
back of the book.
Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for
considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped
essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of
Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After
completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began developing
his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
volumes show an antebellum view of nature as fundamentally dynamic
and simultaneously grotesque and awe-inspiring. The quadruped
essays are rich with good stories about these mammals and the
humans who observe, pursue, and admire them. For help with the
science and the essays, Audubon enlisted the Reverend John Bachman
of Charleston, South Carolina. While he has been acknowledged as
coauthor of the essays, Bachman has received little attention as an
American nature writer. While almost all works that describe the
history of American nature writing include Audubon, Bachman shows
up only in a subordinate clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives
to restore Bachman's status as an important American nature writer.
Patterson and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the
voices of Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous
hunting stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and
bombast, and of Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist,
scientific detective, moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and
humorist. Drawing on all the primary and secondary evidence,
Patterson and Russell tell the story of the coauthors' fascinating,
conflicted relationship. This collection offers windows onto the
early United States and much forgotten lore, often in the form of
travel writing, natural history, and unique anecdotes, all told in
the compelling voices of Antebellum America's two leading
naturalists.
Add avian appeal to almost any flat surface with 24 beautiful
full-color reproductions of Audubon's exquisite paintings of a
brown pelican, mountain quail, snow bunting, burrowing owl, red
knot, Anna's hummingbird, cerulean warbler and many others. Just
peel and apply. Also great for learning to recognize and identify
various species.
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The Birds of America (Hardcover)
John james Audubon; Introduction by David Allen Sibley
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This stunning edition of one of the most celebrated and highly
valued natural history books of all time features impeccably
reproduced images of Audubon's original watercolors, along with an
introduction by world-renowned ornithologist David Allen Sibley.
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 prints of the original watercolours were photographed
using the latest digital scanning technology. From an avocet
grazing in a tidal pond to a zenaida dove perched on a flowering
branch, each of Audubon's subjects is depicted with the grace and
beauty of a living bird in its natural habitat. An avid outdoorsman
and explorer, Audubon traveled from Florida to Labrador to Texas
and the Dakotas to study and collect his specimens. Straddling the
line between science and art, this book mesmerized 19th-century
audiences around the world; today it stands as a reminder of the
spectacular biodiversity of the North American continent, and of
the pioneer spirit that Audubon himself revered.
Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and
natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri
River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have
been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel
Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three
important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here
he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of
Audubon's last journey through the American West. Patterson's new
edition of the journals-unknown to Audubon scholars and fans-offers
a significantly different understanding of the very core of
Audubon's life and work. Readers will be introduced to a more
authentic Audubon, one who was concerned about the disappearance of
America's wild animal species and yet also loved to hunt and
display his prowess in the wilderness. This edition reveals that
Audubon's famous late conversion to conservationism on this
expedition was, in fact, a literary fiction. Maria Rebecca Audubon
created this myth when she rewrote her grandfather's journals for
publication to make him into a visionary conservationist. In
reality the journals detail almost gratuitous hunting predations
throughout the course of Audubon's last expedition. The Missouri
River Journals of John James Audubon is the definitive presentation
of America's most famous naturalist on his last expedition and
assesses Audubon's actual environmental ethic amid his conflicted
relationship with the natural world he so admired and depicted in
his iconic works.
John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter,
produced one of the greatest works of natural history and art of
the nineteenth century, The Birds of America. As the record of the
interior story of the making of this monumental work, his journal
of 1826 is one of the richest documents in the history of American
culture.  The first accurate transcription of Audubon’s
1826 journal, this edition corrects many of the errors, both
intentional and unintentional, found in previous editions. Such
errors have obscured the figure of Audubon as a man struggling to
realize his professional and artistic dreams. When Audubon embarked
for Liverpool from New Orleans in 1826, he carried with him more
than 250 of his watercolor drawings in a heavy case, a packet of
letters of introduction, and many a good reason to believe that he
was a fool to be gambling his family’s fortunes on so risky and
grandiose a venture. These journal entries, conveying with energy
and emotion Audubon’s experience of risking everything on a
dream—“Oh, America, Wife, Children and acquaintances,
Farewell!”—document an American icon’s transformation from a
beleaguered backwoods artist and naturalist to the man who would
become America’s premier ornithologist, illustrator of birds, and
nature essayist.
John James Audubon's journal of 1826 details the months leading up
to his creation of The Birds of America, one of the greatest works
of natural history and art of the nineteenth century. The first
accurate transcription of Audubon's 1826 journal, this edition
corrects many of the errors, both intentional and unintentional,
found in previous editions. Such errors have obscured the figure of
Audubon as a man struggling to realize his professional and
artistic dreams.
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's
dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a
collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard work, and
the name Audubon remains synonymous with birds and bird
conservation the world over. Born in Haiti, the illegitimate son of
a French sea-captain, he was raised in France and sailed to America
at the age of 18 where he went into business and began his study of
birds. In 1819 he was briefly jailed for bankruptcy; with no other
prospects, he set off on his epic quest to depict America's
avifauna, with nothing but his gun, artist's materials, and a young
assistant. Floating down the Mississippi, he lived a rugged
hand-to-mouth existence while his devoted wife, Lucy, earned money
as a tutor to wealthy plantation families. In 1826 he sailed with
his partly finished collection to England. Lionized as the
'American woodsman', he hit just the right Romantic note for the
era, and was an overnight success, finding printers for his book
first in Edinburgh, then London. It was a classic American tale of
triumph over adversity. Here are vivid 'bird biographies', his
correspondence with Lucy, journal accounts of his dramatic river
journeys and hunting trips with the Osage Indians, and a generous
sampling of brief stories that have long been out of print, 'The
Burning of the Forests' and 'Kentucky Barbecue on the Fourth of
July' among them. The Audubon Reader is an unforgettable encounter
with early America: with its wildlife and birds, with its people
and its primordial wilderness.
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Birds of America - Vol. 5
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