THE BIRDS OF AMERICA

First published in installments between 1827 and 1838, John James Audubons collection of life-sized watercolors of North American b irds is the standard against which all wildlife illustration is measured. Fewer than 120 copies survive today, locked away in museum s and private collections around the world. For this volume, the Natural History Museum in London disbound one of the two original e ditions it owns, and each of the 435 exquisite hand-colored prints of the original watercolours were photographed using the latest d igital sc...[Llegir més]