Description: Birds of America by John J. Audubon With A Foreword and Descriptive Captions by William Vogt, published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962. First Macmillan Edition, Sixth Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated. 435 plates. 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 States. It was first published between 1827 and 1838 and it is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration. This is a splendid 1962 edition published by The Macmillan Company with reproductions of the original plates, each captioned with description and notes on habitat, identification, and nesting. Original title page facsimile included. This book is the perfect gift for animal lovers, nature lovers, art enthusiasts, and history buffs alike. CONDITION: This Book is in good condition. Tight binding. Clean text. No writing, no bookplates. The dust jacket is scuffed, has a few minor tears and edge wear but it was wrapped with a clear cover and secured with tape by previous owner to protect it from further damage. Pages have turned yellow from age. Foxing on the book edges commensurate with age. There is a tear on the inner hinge. There is a small tear on the bottom of plate 373. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION. PLATES: Wild Turkey Yellow-billed Cuckoo Prothonotary Warbler Purple Finch Canada Warbler Wild Turkey Purple Grakle White throated Sparrow Hooded Warbler American Pipit Bald Eagle Baltimore Oriole Slate-Colored Junco Prairie Warbler Parula Warbler Duck Hawk Mourning Dove Bewick's Wren Louisiana Water Thrush Blue-winged Warbler Mocking Bird Purple Martin Maryland Yellow-Throat Maryland Yellow-Throat Song Sparrow Carolina Paroquet Red headed Woodpecker Blue-Headed Vireo Towhee Pine Warbler Bald Eagle Black-billed Cuckoo Goldfinch Worm eating Warbler Yellow Warbler Cooper’s Hawk Flicker Kentucky Warbler Tufted Titmouse American Redstart Ruffed Grouse Orchard Oriole Cedar Waxwing Summer Tanager Alder Flycatcher Barred Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Cerulean Warbler Cerulean Warbler Magnolia Warbler Red-tailed Hawk Chuck-will's Widow Painted Bunting Bobolink Cuvier’s Regulus Red-shouldered Hawk Loggerhead Shrike Hermit Thrush Chestnut-sided Warbler Carbonated Warbler Great Horned Owl Passenger Pigeon White-eyed Vireo Swamp Sparrow Yellow Warbler Ivory-billed Woodpecker Red-wing Cliff Swallow Bay-breasted Warbler Henslow's Sparrow Red-Shouldered Hawk Swallow-tailed Kite Wood Thrush Indigo Bunting Pigeon Hawk Bob-White Belted Kingfisher Carolina Wren Kingbird American Pipit Osprey Whip-poor-will House Wren Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher Yellow Throated Warbler Harlan’s Hawk Florida Jay Bay-Breasted Warbler Nashville Warbler Black & White Warbler Broad-winged Hawk Pigeon Hawk Seaside Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Yellow Warbler Collie’s Magpie-Jay Screech Owl Long-billed Marsh Wren Cowbird Tree Swallow Raven Blue Jay Canada Warbler Chipping Sparrow Red-breasted Nuthatch Black Vulture Canada Jay Fox Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Hooded Warbler Pileated Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Bluebird White-crowned Sparrow Wood Pewee BrownThrasher Mississippi Kite Warbling Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Phoebe Snowy Ow Blue Grosbeak Magnolia Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Brown-headed Nuthatch Bald Eagle Rose-breasted Grosbeak Catbird Crested Flycatcher Grasshopper Sparrow Robin Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker Black-poll Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Meadowlark Yellow-breasted Chat Connecticut Warbler Field Sparrow Pine Warbler Goshawk Sparrow Hawk Oven-Bird Acadian Flycatcher Yellow Palm Warbler Fish Crow Nighthawk Black-Throated Blue Warbler Sharp-tailed Sparrow Red-eyed Vireo Turkey Vulture White-breasted Nuthatch Myrtle Warbler Tennessee Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Crow Rusty Blackbird Chimney Swift Cardinal Black-capped Chickadee Audubon’s Caracara Zenaida Dove Yellow Palm Warbler Veery Bachman’s Sparrow Rough-legged Hawk Key west Quail Dove Fork-tailed Flycatcher Maynard’s Cuckoo Gray Kingbird Barn Owl Blue-headed Quail Dove Barn Swallow Olive sided Flycatcher Short-billed Marsh Wren Spotted Grous White-crowned Pigeon Orange-crowned Warbler House Wren Pine Siskin Goldon Eagle Ground Dove Golden-crowned Kinglet Black-throated Mango Bachman's Warbler Prairie Chicken Boat-tailed Grackle Tree Sparrow Snow Bunting Yellow bellied Sapsucker Willow Ptarmigan Northern Shrike Lincoln Sparrow Hudsonian Chickadee Ruby crowned Kinglet Gyrfalcon Red Crossbill Swainson’s Warbler Saw-Whet Owl Horned Lark Canada Goose Red-Throated Loon King Rail Clapper Rail Virginia Rail Wood Duck White-bellied Booby Eskimo Curlew Wilson's Plover Least Bittern Great blue Heron Ring-billed Gull Atlantic Puffin Razor Bill Auk Northern phalarope Wood Ibiss Louisiana Heron Atlantic Murre Black Guillemot Piping Plover Mallard White Ibis Oyster-catcher Kittiwake Killdeer Whooping Crane Pintail Green winged Teal Lesser Scaup Duck Sanderling Long-billed Curlew Hooded Merganser Sora King-necked Duck Sooty Tern Black-crowned Night Heron Hudsonian Curlew Marbled Godwit Coot Roseate Tern Great Black Backed Gull Snowy Egret Wilson’s Snipe Florida Gallinule Brünnich’s Murre American Eider White-winged Scoter Pied-billed Grebe Tufted Puffin Arctic Tern Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Pomarine Jaeger Wilson's Phalarope Red Phalarope Redish Egret Double-crested Cormorant Hudsonian Godwit Horned Grebe Leach’s Petrel Sandhill Crane Yellow-billed Tropic Bird Curlew Sandpiper Fulmar Buff breasted Sandpiper European Cormorant Long-tailed Jaeger American Woodcock Greenshank Wilson’s Petrel Man-o’-War Bird Parasitic Jaeger Royal Tern Willet Noddy Tern King Eider Hutchins's Goose White-Rumped Sandpiper Cabot’s Tern Black Tern Great White Heron Iceland Gull Greater Shearwater Purple Sandpiper Sabine’s Gull White-fronted Goose Ivory Gull Lesser Yellow-legs Solitary Sandpiper Red backed Sandpiper Herring Gull Great Crested Grebe Horned Puffin Pectoral Sandpiper Manks Shearwater Barnacle Goose Harlequin Duck Holboell’s Grebe Audubon’s Shearwater Golden Plover Canvasbacked Black Duck Upland Plover Ruddy Turnstone Purple Gallinule Common Loon Little Blue Heron Greater Yellow-Legs Common Tern Spotted Sandpiper White Pelican Old-Squaw Blue-Winged Teal Laughing Gull Knot Water-Turkey Surf Scoter Avocet Least Tern Least Sandpiper Roseate Spoonbill Redhead Black Skimmer Bonapartian Gull Bufflehead Gannet Shoveller Black-necked stilt Yellow Rail Semipalmated Plover American Merganser Labrador Duck Green Heron Black-bellied Plover Dowitcher Yellow-Crowned Night Heron American Bittern Bemaculated Duck Dovekie Storm Petrel Great Auk American Golden-Eye Ruddy Duck Stilt Sandpiper Baldpate Pacific Loon Gadwall Black Rail Mountain Plover Great Gray Owl White-tailed Kite Chickadees & Bush-tit Two Tanagers MacGillivray's Seaside Sparrow Marsh Hawk American Magpie Pine Grosbeak Three Tyrant Flycatcher Two Wrens Dusky Grouse Four Western Corvids Bohemian waxwing White-winged Crossbill Lapland Longspur Gyrfalcon Band-tailed Pigeon Rock Ptarmigan Thrasher & Thrush Dipper Sage Grouse Swainson’s Hawk Two Grosbeaks Sharp-shinned Hawk Common Redpoll Trumpeter Swan Limpkin Hawk Owl Rufous Hummingbird Richardson’s Owl Blue & Snow Goose Sharp-tailed Grous Long-eared Owl Dickcissel Two Swallows American Egret Glossy Ibis Three Icterids Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Three Finches American Brant Harris’s Hawk Warbler & Bluebirds Four Fringillids Three Western Warblers Glaucous Gull Scarlet Ibis Three Fringillids Three Warblers Finches & Tanager Red-breasted Merganser Four Alcids Barrow’s Golden-eye Eared Grebe Semipalmated Sandpiper Trumpeter Swan American Sooty Albatross American Scoter Forster’s & Trudeau's Terns Gull-billed Tern Whistling Swan Two Cormorants Valley Quail Two Warblers Two Dark Feeders Five Woodpeckers Two Woodpeckers Two Ptarmigan Thrush, Solitaire, and Jay Bicolored Red-wing Brown Pelican Rough-legged Hawk Two Quail Fringillids & Icterid Anna’s Hummingbird Californian Condor Oyster-catchers Surf-bird Steller’s Eider Marbled Murrelet Flamingo Four Owls A Feathered Pot-pourri Flycatchers & Vireo Dipper
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Binding: Hardcover
Subj Lookup 1: Individual Artists - Monographs
Place of Publication: New York
Subj Lookup 2: Ornithological monograph
Topics: wildlife illustration, ornithological prints
Subtopic: Watercolor painting, Nature Paintings, Naturalists
Book Title: Birds of America
Signed: No
Subtopic (1): Ornithological illustrations
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Subject: Birds, Bird Ecology, Birdwatching, Pictorial works, Art
Year Printed: 1962
Language: English
Illustrator: John James Audubon (1785-1851)
Special Attributes: 1st Macmillan Edition, Sixth Printing, Dust Jacket, Gorgeous full page illustrations throughout, Illustrated, Large Print
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Author: John James Audubon (1785-1851)
Genre: Environment, Ornithology, Animals, Wildlife, Nature
Subtopics: Individual Artist, United States
Topic: Nature, Birds, Art, North America, Artists, Ornithologists
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subjects: Non-Fiction, Reference, Ornithology, Natural history