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