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  2. The Birds of America - Wikipedia

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    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 as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London.

  3. John James Audubon - Wikipedia

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    John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. [1]

  4. Transylvania University book heist - Wikipedia

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    The library at Transylvania University was the beneficiary of book collectors, particularly Clara Peck, a wealthy New York sportswoman. [3] Her donations included original folios of The Birds of America by John James Audubon, a two volume edition of Hortus Sanitatis and a first edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

  5. Birds of America - Wikipedia

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    Birds of America may refer to: Birds of America, a book by John James Audubon first published in sections between 1827 and 1838; Birds of America, a 2008 film directed by Craig Lucas. Birds of America, a 1971 novel by Mary McCarthy; Birds of America, a 1998 collection of stories by Lorrie Moore

  6. Snowy Owl (Audubon) - Wikipedia

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    Meisei University: Birds of America — the complete sets of 435 plates of drawings, with the accompanying five volumes of textbooks. The short film John James Audubon: The Birds of America (1986) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31/September 1887/Sketch of J. J. Audubon

  7. NYC bird group drops name of illustrator and slave owner Audubon

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    Audubon, who lived from 1785 to 1851, is known for documenting birds and illustrating them for his master work “The Birds of America.” Audubon owned enslaved people for a number of years but ...

  8. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.

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