Audubon Octavo Birds. Chevalier New York and Philadelphia 1840-1844. John James Audubon explored the American backwoods and wilderness to discover record and illustrate its avian life.
It also contains all 155 images of the 1st octavo edition of The Quadrupeds of North America along with Audubon and the Rev. The Audubon family utilized Camera Lucida to reduce the double elephant folio Havell edition bird images to the smaller Octavo size about 10 x 6 12. Audubons Octavo Birds First Edition 1840-1844 All prints guaranteed authentic and from the first octavo edition of The Birds of America based on either first-hand knowledge of the source or on widely accepted authentication criteria.
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 StatesIt was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838 in Edinburgh and London.
Audubon Octavo Prints Birds of America John James Audubon 1785-1851 was born in the French colony of Santa Domingo later known as Haiti to a wealthy French sea captain merchant and a young slave Jeanne Rabin who died six months after his birth. These prints are originals and Audubon issued the prints in a series by species. 1st Edition Antique Lithographs from 1840 with hand coloring. Americas most revered artist-naturalist John James Audubon 17851851 is renowned for his extraordinary undertaking to record the birds of America.