An edition of The Birds of America (1827)

The birds of America

from drawings made in the United States and their territories

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An edition of The Birds of America (1827)

The birds of America

from drawings made in the United States and their territories

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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
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  4. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168109W
  5. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168104W
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Publisher
G.R. Lockwood
Language
English
Pages
500

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Cover of: Birds of America
Birds of America
1997, Wordsworth Editions
Hardcover in English
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Audubon's birds of America
1991, Abbeville Press
in English - 1st ed., tiny folios format / edited by Walton Rawls.
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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
Cover of: The birds of America

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Edition Notes

Issued in 100 parts, with 5 plates for each part.

"The last, or a reprint of the last, complete edition of Audubon's work on the birds of America. It is not dated ..."--Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 26.

The text is based on Audubon's descriptions of birds in his Ornithological biography (1831-1839), which was written with the assistance of William MacGillivray. The majority of the plates are based on those appearing in the double elephant folio ed., without text, London, 1827-1838, with some changes made to accommodate the reduced octavo size.

"C.A. Alvord, printer"--Verso of t.p.'s.

The plates have lithographed beige or aqua backgrounds with hand-colored details, and use block, rather than italic, lettering for the artists' and printers' attributions (both the colored backgrounds and the block lettering are identifying features for the later octavo eds.).

The plates were done after J.J. and J.W. Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly, and others, and printed and lithographed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia.

Plate 187 in the text (Townsend's finch) is misnumbered as 188 on the plate, and plate 188 in the text (Brown finch) is misnumbered as 187 on the plate.

"John James Audubon" (a biographical sketch): v. 1, p. i-xv, following table of contents.

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Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432118 1998/02/09 through 1998/07/10 none ; plate - Rose breasted grossbreak William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432126 1997/05/09 through 1997/08/09 none ; plate - Kingfisher William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432118 1997/08/09 through 1997/11/09 none ; plate - Robin William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432118 1997/11/09 through 1998/02/09 none ; plate - Cardinal William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432118 1998/02/09 through 1998/07/10 none ; plate - Rose breasted grossbreak William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432126 1997/05/09 through 1997/08/09 none ; plate - Kingfisher William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432118 1997/08/09 through 1997/11/09 none ; plate - Robin William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Audubon & the Smithsonian Exhibit QL674.A91b ; 39088004432118 1997/11/09 through 1998/02/09 none ; plate - Cardinal William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery Helena Wright return to shelf

Smithsonian's America 39088002531457; Plate 12, no. 3, following p. 50 1994/01/15 through 1994/10/31 Diane Shaw Nippon Convention Center, Chiba Prefecture, Japan Merrill Lavine (NMAH).

SCNHRB has two copies; neither is dated. The publisher, George R. Lockwood, issued three undated reprints of The birds of America, in 1870, 1871, and 1889. Both SCNHRB copies have the same plate numbering error described in the NUC pre-56 LC record for the 1871 ed. and are a presumed match for that edition.

SCNHRB c. 1 has 8 v.; the biography of Audubon in v. 1 is wanting.

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: Gardner Rand.

SCNHRB c. 1 has later half-leather binding with marbled boards; raised bands; blind-tooled spine; marbled endpapers and edges.

SCNHRB c. 2 is incomplete, containing the plates only.

Each v. of SCNHRB c. 2 has bound at end: Baird, S.F. Catalogue of North American birds, chiefly in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. (Smithsonian miscellaneous collections). Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1859. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCNHRB c. 2 has binder's titles: v. 1: Land birds, plates 1-160; v. 2: Land birds, plates 161-320; v. 3: Water birds, plates 321-500.

SCNHRB c. 2, v. 1 has t.p. with imprint: New York ; Philadelphia : J.J. Audubon, 1844, although the plates are apparently from one of the G.R. Lockwood reprints.

SCNHRB c. 2, v. 2 has plates numbered 161-302 [not 320, as on binder's title], plus plates numbered 481-500 (duplicated from v. 3).

SCNHRB c. 2, v. 3 has plates numbered 303-500.

SCNHRB c. 2 has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Dec. 28, 1920; accession no. (all 3 v.): 249931. Note typed on old card set: "Baird, Spencer Fullerton, estate ..."

SCNHRB c. 2 has later green morocco half-leather binding with mottled paper boards; raised bands; gilt-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1839

Classifications

Library of Congress
QL674 .A9 1871

The Physical Object

Pagination
8 v., 500 leaves of plates.
Number of pages
500

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26356987M
LCCN
06018537
OCLC/WorldCat
32605159

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