The birds of America /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Macmillan Company,
1946.
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| Item Description: | Reprint of the 1937 edition. The colored plates are preceded by a reproduction of the t.-p. of one of the original portfolios dated 1827-1830, not included in the paging. "Of the ... 500 plates, the first 485 were originally published by Audubon, in London, during the years 1827-1833 ... a set believed to be the finest in uncut state in America ... has ... been followed in making the present reproductions. The final sixty-five subjects were painted at a later date ... They were first reproduced in the octavo Birds of America published by Audubon in New York (and J. B. Chevalier in Philadelphia), 1830-1844. The present plates 436-500 are reproduced from that book."--Note. Includes index. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi pages, 435 pages of plates : color illustrations, portrait ; 31 cm. |