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For items related to John James Audubon and Birds of America within the American Antiquarian Society's catalog, click here, including the multi-volume set accompanying the original folio plates, and a salesmans sample book advertising the text volumes to the Bien edition.

For items related to Julius Bien within the American Antiquarian Society's catalog, click here.

For more digital resources, including illustrated inventories and online exhibits from the Society's collections, click here.

 

Further Reading

Fries, W. Double Elephant Folio: The Story of Audubon's Birds of America, Amherst, 2006.

Low, S.M. An Analysis of the Bien Edition of Audubon's Birds of America Which Was Published in New York, 1858-60, New York, 1994.

Low, S.M. A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America: a Concordance Containing Current Names of the Birds, Plate Names with Descriptions of Plate Variants, a Description of the Bien Edition, and Corresponding Indexes, New Haven, 2002, p. 323-368.

National Museum of History and Technology. Mr. Audubon and Mr. Bien: an Early Phase in the History of American Chromolithography, Washington, 1975.

 

 

 

This is an illustrated inventory of the American Antiquarian Society. Created by Christine Graham-Ward, Visual Materials Cataloger, 2016.