The Birds of America
About this book
The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio differs in a number of ways -- besides its dimensions -- from earlier editions of The Birds of America and from John James Audubon's original, massive Double-Elephant Folio, the heaviest volume of which weighs 56 pounds. These plates are organized not in the order that Audubon produced them for his subscribers but phylogenetically; that is, in a modern scientific classification sequence that somewhat parallels the evolutionary history of a genetically related group of organisms -- from the most primitive living examples to the most recently evolved -- in this case going from loons to sparrows and buntings. The numbering of our plates follows the taxonomical sequence of orders, families, and species in the Check-List of North American Birds prepared by the American Ornithologists' Union, as adapted and up-dated by the American Birding Association.
Also available in volumes 1-8:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Subjects
- american watercolor painting
- art
- art & art instruction
- art / general
- artists
- artists, biography
- artists, united states
- biography
- birds
- birds & birdwatching
- birds in art
- birds, including cage birds
- birds, north america
- birds, pictorial works
- birds, united states
- classification
- drawing & drawings
- general
- geographical distribution
- individual artist
- juvenile literature
- miniature books
- miniature books, specimens
- nature/ecology
- north america
- oiseaux
- ornithological illustration
- ornithologists
- ornithology
- ouvrages illustrés
- pictorial works
- sale adult - art & art instruction
- sale books
- specimens
- techniques - painting - specific subjects
- techniques - printmaking