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UK: The Natural History Museum, 2011-01-01. 1st. Hardcover. Excellent/Very good slipcase. 400 x 267 mm. Audubon, John James. NO. Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also one of the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for £7.3 million, which is a world record. First published in double elephant size (approximately a metre tall) in the first half of the nineteenth century, it is famous for its stunning life-size illustrations of birds set within landscaped backgrounds. The book was issued in parts over eleven years and only around 200 completed sets were ever produced. Less than 120 of these survive today, locked away in museums, galleries and private collections around the world. To create this complete edition of Audubon's masterpiece, each of the 435 beautiful hand-coloured prints was specially photographed from the Natural History Museum's own original edition. The artworks are accompanied by the…
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Written by naturalist John James
Audubon, the Birds of America is one of the most prized and collected
books of all time. In addition to the stunning colors and detail in
Audubon's work, it is noteworthy also because of its ambitious scope:
to paint every bird in North America. Six of the birds painted have
become extinct since its publication.
Identificación de primeras ediciones
Originally published as a series of 425
loose hand-colored watercolor prints roughly 26 by 39 inches between
1827 and 1838, the Birds of America was collected in a five volume
folio edition in 1838 (called the Harvell Edition). Subsequent
editions were issued at a more affordable price in multi-volume
octavo editions. One hundred twenty copies of the first edition are
known to have survived complete, most now residing in institutions
and libraries. The most recently sold copy went to an anonymous
American collector at auction for $7.9 million in 2012.
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- Título Birds of America
- Autor John James Audubon
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición 1st Thus
- Páginas 1
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Natural History Museum, London
- Fecha de publicación 2011-10
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780565092733 / 0565092731
- Peso 10 libras (4.54 kg)
- Dimensiones 15.7 x 10.5 x 2.5 pulgadas (39.88 x 26.67 x 6.35 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Birds - North America
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2011535484
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.297
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Birds of America
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- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Usado - Excellent
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780565092733 / 0565092731
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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