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John James Audubon
The Birds of America : Works About
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Histories and general works
- "Some account of the work now publishing by Mr. Audubon" byCall Number: QH1 .M2 v. 1 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1828In: Magazine of Natural History, vol. 1 (May 1828), pages 43-52.
Article written in April 1828 by British naturalist-artist praising first groups of plates of "The Birds of America" - Under the special patronage of her most excellent majesty, Queen Adelaide. The Birds of America engraved from drawings made in the United States and their territories byCall Number: QL674 .A958 1831 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1831A prospectus for the folio edition of "The Birds of America" while it was in production in London
- The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The birds of America, reproduced in color for the first time from the collection at the New-York Historical Society byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1966 v. 1-2 McIlhenny and RarePublication Date: 1966Text by Marshall B. Davidson. Each image is accompanied by notes indicating where and when the original drawing was done, when known.
- The living world of Audubon byCall Number: QL674 .C53 OVER LLMVCPublication Date: 1974A selection of plates from "The Birds of America," paired with color photos of the birds and brief texts about the species depicted.
- Audubon's great national work : the royal octavo edition of The birds of America byCall Number: QL681 .A973 T95 1993B OVER McIlhennyPublication Date: 1993Another edition is also held in LSU-MAIN
- The making of Audubon's "salvator" : the royal octavo edition of The Birds of America byCall Number: QL681 .A973 T39 1994 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1994Discusses a small collection of drawings and proofs now held in LSU Libraries Special Collections.
Also in LSU-MAIN in: The Book collector, Vol. 43, no. 3 (autumn 1994), pages 387-395.
Z990 .B6 vol. 43 - "Ornithology and enterprise: making and marketing John James Audubon's The Birds of America" byCall Number: E172 .A35 v. 113 LSU-MAINPublication Date: 2003In: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 113, no. 2 (Oct. 2003), pages 267-302.
- Under a wild sky : John James Audubon and the making of the Birds of America byCall Number: QL31 .A9 S68 2004Publication Date: 2004
- The double elephant folio : the story of Audubon's Birds of America byCall Number: QL674 .A953 F74 2006 McIlhennyPublication Date: 2006Includes ownership histories, where known, of individual copies of "Birds of America" elephant folio, current in this edition to 2004. The 1974 and 1985 editions of Fries are also held.
- John James Audubon and The birds of America : a visionary achievement in ornithological illustration byCall Number: QL31 .A9 V43 2006 LSU-MAINPublication Date: 2006
- Audubon's aviary : the original watercolors for The birds of America byCall Number: QL681 .O47 2012 OVER McIlhennyPublication Date: 2012
- Audubon as artist : a new look at The birds of America byCall Number: QL31 .A9 O57 2024 McIlhennyPublication Date: 2024
Indexes and other aids
For works focusing on identification of Audubon prints, see the section Special Topics in this guide.
- Audubon's "Birds of America": a check list of first issues of the plates in the first folio edition, 1828-1838 byCall Number: QL674 .A99Publication Date: 1941
- Commentaries on Audubon's Birds of America byCall Number: QL674 .A953 P47 1985 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1985
- An index and guide to Audubon's Birds of America byCall Number: QL674 .A913 L69 1988 REF McIlhennyPublication Date: 1988
- Catalogue of the new Birds of America section of the Audubon Archives, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City byCall Number: QL674 .A953 L69 1993 REF McIlhennyPublication Date: 1993
- An Audubon concordance : migration through the plate numbers byCall Number: QL681 .A973 B73 1999 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1999
- A guide to Audubon's Birds of America : a concordance containing current names of the birds, plate names with descriptions of plate variants, a description of the Bien edition, and corresponding indexes byCall Number: QL681 .L684 2002 McIlhennyPublication Date: 2002