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The Birds of America : Editions in LSU Libraries
For the publication history of The Birds of America, see the Overview section under Audubon's Works in this guide.
Only the most significant editions and reproductions of The Birds of America held in LSU Libraries are listed here. Call numbers without a location after them indicate the title is held in more than one location. See linked catalog records for details.
The Audubon holdings of LSU Libraries Special Collections also include 120 original elephant folio plates from The Birds of America which are unbound. These are part of the art collection in the McIlhenny Natural History Collection, and are not currently represented in the library catalog. For a selection of original drawings and other material connected with The Birds of America octavo edition, see under Manuscript Collections in this guide.
- The birds of America byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1827 v. 1-4 VAULT McIlhennyPublication Date: 1827-1838Original elephant folio edition, complete. LSU copy was purchased in 1964 and is bound in 4 volumes, as owned by original subscriber Hugh Percy, third Duke of Northumberland (1785-1847). He was one of the last British subscribers, having enrolled in 1836.
Individual viewing by appointment only. - The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1840 v. 1-7 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1840-1844First octavo edition
- The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1856 v. 1-7 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1856Reissue of first octavo edition
- The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1859 v. 1-7 McIlhenny and LARAPublication Date: 1859Reissue of the 1856 octavo edition
- The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1860 v. 1-7 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1860Described as "fourth octavo edition" in S.C. Arthur, "Audubon" (1937)
- The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1861 v. 1-7 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1861Octavo edition without plates
- The birds of America byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1937Publication Date: 1937Text by William Vogt. Reproductions of plates from folio edition, and additional plates from octavo. Several later printings of this work are also held.
- The birds of America byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1967Publication Date: 1967Reprint of octavo edition, with black & white plates
- The art of Audubon : the complete birds and mammals byCall Number: QL681 .A96 1979Publication Date: 1979Reproductions of plates from octavo "Birds of America" and "Quadrupeds of North America" in a single volume
- Audubon's Birds of America byCall Number: QL681 .A97 1981 FLAT LLMVCPublication Date: 1981Reproduction of elephant folio plates. Edited by Roger Tory Peterson.
- Six plates from Birds of America byCall Number: QL681 .A972 1985 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1985Printed from original Lizars and Havell copperplates held in the American Museum of Natural History
- The birds of America byCall Number: QL674 .A9 2012 OVER McIlhennyPublication Date: 2012Reproduction of elephant folio plates