Books
Boeken
2 volumes in 1 (xxxi pages, 431 leaves of plates (some folded), lv pages)
The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America: reproduced in color from the collection at the New-York Historical Society
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co; [1966]
"Original edition published by American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc."--On title page.
"With 431 of the 433 original watercolors and including the artist's marginal sketches and notes"--On front flap of dust jacket.
Marshall B. Davidson edited the descriptive captions to include quotations from Audubon's five-volume Ornithological Biography.
chiefly colour illustrations, facsimiles
Reprint. Originally published in 2 volumes in slipcase.
"All the ornithological observations presented by Adubon, and all his notes on plants and trees, have been reviewed; such information given in the text accompanying the plates reflects the most recent scientific knowledge."--Page [xxx] of introduction.