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3430 RED CLOUD TRAIL SAINT AUGUSTINE, FL - USA 32086
TEL: (904)-547-2591
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Title: "American Flamingo" (Plate: 375)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10" x 6.5"
Image size: 6.5" x 5.75"
Price: SOLD
'The Birds of America', First Royal Octavo Edition (1840-1844)
To make 'The Birds of America' more affordable and widely available, in 1839 John James Audubon began the first octavo edition, a smaller version of the folio which was printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse, and then drawn onto lithographic stones. These miniatures exhibit a remarkable amount of attention to quality and detail, as well as a meticulous fidelity to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the Havell edition, John James Audubon’s first octavo edition was sold by subscription and distributed in parts, five at a time. However, the octavo editions were issued in proper phylogenic, or species order. These prints also bear the plate number in the upper right-hand corner and the subscription number in the upper left. The first edition of approximately 1,200 sets of 7 volumes was completed in five years from 1839 to 1844. A total of 500 images comprise the First Royal Octavo Edition.
Title: "Greenshank" (St. Augustine, FL) (Plate: 346)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Framed size: 12.5" x 15"
Sheet size: 6.63" x 10"
Image size: 4.38" x 7.75"
Price: $700
Title: "Common Buzzard" (Plate: 6)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10" x 6.5"
Image size: 5.25" x 5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Cayenne Tern" (Plate: 429)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.5" x 10"
Image size: 4" x 7.75"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Canada Goose" (Plate: 376)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10" x 6.5"
Image size: 7.25" x 6.25"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Iceland or Gyr Falcon" (Plate: 19)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Framed size: 20.5" x 17"
Sheet size: 10" x 6.5"
Image size: 7.5" x 5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Pipiry Flycatcher" (Plate: 55)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10.5" x 6.5"
Image size: 7" x 5.5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Brown-headed Nuthatch" (Plate: 249)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10" x 6.25"
Image size: 8" x 4"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Duskey Duck" (Plate: 386)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.75" x 10.25"
Image size: 4" x 7.5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Ruddy Duck" (Plate: 399)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.75" x 10.25"
Image size: 3.75" x 6.5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Whooping Crane" (Plate: 313)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Framed size: 17.25" x 14.25"
Sheet size: 10.5" x 7"
Image size: 7.5" x 5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Common Mocking Bird" (Plate:138)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10.25" x 6.5"
Image size: 8.75" x 5.5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Wood Ibis" (Plate: 361)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10.5" x 6.5"
Image size: 7" x 5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Brown Pelican" (Plate: 424)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Framed size: 16.13" x 19.13"
Sheet size: 6.5" x 10"
Image size: 4.5" x 7.75"
Price: $1,500
Title: "Swainson's Swamp Warbler" (Plate:104)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10.25" x 6.63"
Image size: 7.5" x 5.25"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Long-tailed Duck" (Plate: 410)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.88" x 10.5"
Image size: 4" x 7.25"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Long-billed Curlew (City of Charleston)" (Plate: 355)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.5" x 10.25"
Image size: 4.88" x 9.25"
Price: $1,400
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785, Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) – January 27, 1851 (aged 65) Manhattan, New York, U.S.), born Jean-Jacques Audubon, was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species.
Title: "The Birds of America: Volume I" (Plates: 1-70)
*In excellent condition *Very rare
Year: 1840
Medium: The complete book volume of 70 Original Hand-Colored Lithographs
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Overall book size: 10.75" x 7.25" x 1.63"
Sheet size (each): 10.25" x 6.5"
Price: $15,000
Title: "White-Headed Sea Eagle or Bald Eagle" (Plate: 14)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Framed size: 16.75" x 20"
Sheet size: 6.75" x 10.25"
Image size: 4.5" x 7.25"
Price: $1,200
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Title: "Yellow Shanks Snipe" (South Carolina) (Plate: 344)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Framed size: 11.25" x 14.25"
Sheet size: approx. 10" x 6.5"
Image size: 5.13" x 8.5"
Price: $400
Title: "Pectoral Sandpiper" (Plate: 329)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.38" x 10.25"
Image size: 3.38" x 7"
Price: $200
Title: "Key-West Dove" (Plate: 282)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.5" x 10.25"
Image size: 4.13" x 6.5"
Price: $350
Title: "Red-backed Sandpiper" (Plate: 332)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.25" x 10.25"
Image size: 3.75" x 8.13"
Price: $250
Title: "Common American Gull" (Plate: 446)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.75" x 10.13"
Image size: 3.88" x 6.25"
Price: $2000
Title: "Ivory Gull" (Plate: 445)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.25" x 10.13"
Image size: 4" x 7.25"
Price: $200
Title: "Herring Or Silvery Gull" (Plate: 448)
*In good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10.13" x 6.25"
Image size: 6.88" x 5.13"
Price: $200
Title: "Glaucus Gull-Burgomaster" (Plate: 449)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.5" x 10.5"
Image size: 4.88" x 7.88"
Price: $225
Title: "Wilson's Petrel-Mother Carey's" (Plate: 460)
*In very good condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 6.5" x 10.5"
Image size: 4.38" x 6.5"
Price: $150
Title: "Bonaparte’s Flycatching-Warbler" (Plate: 73)
*In excellent condition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Sheet size: 10.5" x 6.5"
Image size: 7.5" x 5.63"
Price: $400