The Birds of America
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada. November 1937. Binding: Full green cloth boards. Upper and spine stamped in gilt., Notes: John James Audubon (1785 –1851) was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. He was notable for his extensive studies of American birds and for his detailed (yet romantic) illustrations, which were engraved in Scotland and England for a large-format (double-elephant folio) color-plate (intaglio) book titled The Birds of America (1827–1838), and five volumes of accompanying text entitled Ornithological Biography (1831–1839)., Size: Folio.(330 x 240 mm), Illustration: Very good example, profusely illustrated with offset lithographs. Ownership inked and stamp of Wm. Tyrell and Co., Toronto on front free endpaper. , Category: Book Natural History; Book Bibliography & Reference Books;. Corners lightly bumped, interior lightly toned else clean and crisp. Item #B7390
Price: $125.00