Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Online Sale

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Online Sale

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

John James Audubon

The Birds of America

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September 30, 04:29 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

John James Audubon

1785 - 1851

 

The Birds of America. New York. The Abbeville Press for the National Audubon Society, 1985

 

4 elephant folio volumes of plates and 7 octavo volumes of accompanying text, each bound in matching green leather, gilt. Accompanied by a wooden display cabinet with sliding shelves.


A handsome facsimile of the National Audubon Society copy of Audubon’s masterpiece, produced in a collaboration between the Society and the Abbeville Press.

 

435 facsimile plates after Audubon’s engravings, a monument of American ornithology and natural history, originally issued in 1827-1838. The present edition was published to coincide with Audubon’s 200th birthday in an unnumbered edition of 350.


The plates here are printed in up to eighteen colors for each illustration on acid-free, dyed paper watermarked with the insignia and names of the Audubon Society and the Abbeville Press.