
John James Audubon: Writings
and Drawings (Library of America) (Hardcover)
From Library Journal
Much of Audubon's other fine writings have been overshadowed by his
venerable Birds of America. This volume, however, gives his
journals, memoirs, and letters a chance to shine. The book also
sports 45 gorgeous color sketches. Readers will undoubtedly find
themselves wanting to do some nesting of their own with this
marvelous work.
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Audubon's Birds Of America
(Tiny Folio) (Hardcover)
~ Roger Tory Peterson (Author)
This edition of Audubon's "Birds of America" displays his
hand-colored engravings in reproductions taken from the original
plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the rare Double
Elephant Folio. The book has been re-organized and annotated by
Roger Tory Peterson.
Hardcover: 435 pages
Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 4.3 x 1.5 inches
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John James Audubon: The Making of an American
by Richard Rhodes (Paperback
- April 11, 2006)
From Publishers
Weekly
Born in 1785 in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the bastard son of a
French naval officer and a chambermaid, Audubon was taken to France
by his father and then sent to America in 1803 to escape
conscription into Napoleon's army. He began drawing birds as a
child, and in America this passion grew into an obsession. His
business ventures failed, and he was often short of money, but for
him, birds overshadowed everything except his devotion to his wife,
Lucy, who encouraged him in all his endeavors and supported the
family when he went on quests for new birds to paint. Traveling into
the American wilderness, Audubon, completely at home on the
frontier, observed birds endlessly, and in 1826 set off for Europe
to spend years promoting his multi-volume Birds of America. His life
makes an engaging story, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rhodes (The
Making of the Atomic Bomb) chronicles every aspect of it, the
commonplace as well as the audacious, in this thoroughly researched
biography. Rhodes's prose style is subtle, enlivened by passages
from Audubon's own letters and journals, and he presents an
agreeable picture of a man who charmed almost everyone he met,
remained devoted to his wife even though he abandoned her for years
at a time and was not above lying about his birth and other details
of his life. Perhaps most important, Rhodes succeeds in shedding
light on how Audubon perfected his ability to capture in his
depictions of birds so much life and emotion that they transcend
traditional wildlife painting. Illus. throughout; 16 pages of photos
not seen by PW. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of
Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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The Composite
Plates of Audubons Birds of America (Paperback)
~ Jeff Holt (Author), Albert Filemyr (Contributor)
Despite all that has been
written about John James Audubon and his work, one
aspect had been overlooked, until now... In 1838, as
John James Audubon's monumental creation, Birds of
America, was nearing completion, he requested his
engraver, Robert Havell, produce 13 extra, unique
prints. Havell was instructed to combine images from two
separate plates into a single print, commonly known as a
"Composite Plate". Only two full sets, along with a
handful of individual prints, of these rare prints exist
today and are rarely if ever seen by the public. In this
book the authors, for the first time, provide an
analysis as to how and why these plates were made, while
providing illustrations depicting all 13 of the
Composite Plates.
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Audubon:
Early Drawings (Hardcover)
~ John James
Audubon (Author), Scott V. Edwards (Editor), Richard
Rhodes (Introduction), Leslie A. Morris (Foreword)
In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a
twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent
education who had fled revolutionary violence in Haiti and then
France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John
James Audubon was an American citizen, entrepreneur, and family man
whose fervent desire to “become acquainted with nature” had led him
to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist whose study of birds
would soon earn him international acclaim. The drawings he made
during this crucial decade—sold to Audubon’s friend and patron
Edward Harris to help fund his masterwork The Birds of America, and
now held by the Houghton Library and the Museum of Comparative
Zoology at Harvard University—are published together here for the
first time in large format and full color. In these 116 portraits of
species collected in America and in Europe we see Audubon inventing
his ingenious methods of posing and depicting his subjects, and we
trace his development into a scientist and an artist who could
proudly sign his artworks “drawn from Nature.” The drawings also
serve as a record of the birds found in Europe and the Eastern
United States in the early nineteenth century, some now rare or
extinct.
The drawings are enhanced by an essay on
the sources of Audubon’s art by his biographer, Richard Rhodes;
transcription of Audubon’s own annotations to the drawings,
including information on when and where the specimens were
collected; ornithological commentary by Scott V. Edwards, along with
reflections on Audubon as scientist; and an account of the history
of the Harris collection by Leslie A. Morris.
Splendid in their own right, these drawings
also illuminate the self-invention of one of the most important
figures in American natural history. They will delight all those
interested in American art, nature, birds, and the life and times of
John James Audubon.
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The Boy Who Drew Birds: A
Story of John James Audubon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for
Students K-12 (Awards)) (Hardcover)
by
Jacqueline Davies (Author),
Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)
From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4–This readable account focuses on a short period in the
famous naturalist's youth. Audubon, who was born and raised in
France, was sent to America at age 18 to avoid service in Napoleon's
army. Living in his father's farmhouse in Pennsylvania, he roamed
the countryside and observed nature. His interest in birds and their
migration habits led him to watch a family of pewee flycatchers
(Eastern Phoebes) that nested in a limestone cave nearby. In order
to determine whether the same creatures returned each year, he
banded the young birds with silver thread before they flew south in
autumn, providing a means of identification when they returned in
spring. Davies relates how the self-taught painter and ornithologist
combined his artistic talent and keen skills of observation to
produce detailed, life-sized portraits of birds "alive and moving."
Sweet's extensive research is evident in her carefully crafted,
mixed-media artwork, which includes photos of found objects,
re-created pages from a nature sketchbook, maps, and watercolor
paintings of young Audubon in the rolling Pennsylvania countryside.
Students writing reports can find further information in Peter
Anderson's John James Audubon: Wildlife Artist (Sagebrush,
1996). The Boy Who Drew Birds is a wonderful and accessible
introduction to a man who made a great impact on the science of
ornithology.–Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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Into the
Woods: John James Audubon Lives His Dream (Hardcover)
by
Robert Burleigh (Author),
Wendell Minor (Illustrator)
From Publishers Weekly
Having previously written about Thoreau, Lindbergh and Babe Ruth,
Burleigh continues his series of biographies of famous men in this
poetic picture book about John James Audubon (1785-1851),
sumptuously illustrated by Minor. The volume begins with advice to
Audubon from his father: " `Be a store owner,' his father said./ But
John went to the woods instead." As an author's note explains, what
follows is Burleigh's imagined response, penned by Audubon in a
letter to his father, in an ornate 19th-century style with rhymed
couplets: "O father, dear Father, to me it seems/ No one can fail
who holds to his dreams." The flow of the narrative parallels
quotations from the naturalist's journals, just as Audubon's own
paintings sometimes appear as spot art to mirror Minor's
illustrations. Author and artist present Audubon as both idealistic
and gentle, and though he doesn't "save every cent" as his father
wants him to, he ends up "saving" in his artwork the disappearing
world he observes ("And I must paint it all because/ We need this
memory of what was"). His philosophy wafts through the volume like a
summer breeze. Minor breathtakingly captures a landscape with a blue
heron in the marsh as easily as a close-up of a dying dove,
alongside a poem deft and sure. Nature-lovers and budding artists
will want to know about this one. Ages 6-up.
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John James Audubon and The
Birds of America: A Visionary Achievement in Ornithology
Illustration (Hardcover)
by
Lee A. Vedder (Author)
Book Description
John James Audubon's sumptuous four-volume edition of Birds of
America, published between 1827 and 1838, contains 435
hand-colored life-size prints of 1,065 individual American birds. A
glorious union of science and art, it remains an unequaled
achievement in ornithology illustration.
In tracing Audubon's quest to produce this groundbreaking work,
Vedder draws on the artist and naturalist's
own writings and the latest scholarship on his life and on Birds
of America. Plates from the Huntington Library's double-elephant
folio are reproduced in color, including the wild turkey, Baltimore
oriole, bald eagle, and (once presumed extinct) ivory-billed
woodpecker. Vedder provides with each plate a commentary on the
unique characteristics of the species depicted, based on Audubon's
own observations in the field.
About the Author
Lee A. Vedder is the Luce Curatorial Fellow in American Art
at the New York Historical Society in New York City, serving as the
primary curator of its painting and sculpture collections. She holds
a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland and
specializes in British and American art of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
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Audubon
Art Prints: A Collector's Guide to Every Edition
By Far the
most comprehensive guide available to the bird and quadruped prints
of John James Audubon.
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Audubon Birds: 252 Prints from the Birds of
America (Hardcover)
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Hardcover: 528
pages
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Publisher: JG
Press (October 2009)
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Language: English
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The
Double Elephant Folio
The Story of Audubon’s Birds of America
by Waldemar Fries

Often called “the Bible of Audubon
scholars”, The Double Elephant Folio is being re-published after more
than 30 years. This important book details the creation of the Birds of America
from 1826-1839 and provides information concerning original subscribers and the provenance of all sets known
to exist in 1973.
The 2005 edition includes an additional appendix updating the status and
location of the sets, both complete and incomplete, currently known to exist. The new appendix was researched and
written by Susanne M. Low, author of A Guide to Audubon’s Birds of America and an associate
in the Department of Ornithology at the American
Museum of Natural History.
First Edition copies of this book sell for over $500 and
nearly impossible to find!
The special edition with updated status and location of known sets retails for
only $84.95
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Handbook of Audubon Prints
Price: $13.56
This book is extremely helpful in identifying
and understanding the production of all of Audubon's works. If you have an Audubon print
and wonder what edition it is or where to start in finding its value then this is the book
for you.
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Print
Collecting; Selecting, Evaluating and Caring for Fine Prints
by Silvie Turner
Price: $ 30.00
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