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Audubon's Birds of America: The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio

Door Roger Tory Peterson e.a.

Categorie	Algemeen Vogels
Boeknummer	#349244-MC15
Titel	Audubon's Birds of America: The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio
Auteur	Peterson, Roger Tory & Virginia Marie Peterson
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Abbeville Press
Jaar van uitgave	1990
ISBN10	1558591281
ISBN13	9781558591288
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original cream cloth, pictorial dust jacket, matching pictorial half cloth slipcase, 435 full page illustrations in colour and numerous illustrations in b/w, unpaged, large folio (40x30cm).
Samenvatting	This marvelous edition of Audubon's Birds of America displays all 435 of Audubon's brilliant handcolored engravings in exquisite reproductions taken from the original plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the rare Double Elephant Folio. Although many attempts have been made to re-create the magnificent illustrations in Audubon's masterpiece, nothing equals the level of fidelity or scale achieved in this high-quality edition. Organized and annotated by Roger Tory Peterson, AmericaGCOs best-known ornithologist, and issued with the full endorsement and cooperation of the Audubon Society, this magnificent volume is as thorough in scientific classification as it is beautiful. Peterson's fascinating introduction places Audubon in the context of the history of American ornithological a... (Lees verder)rt and also reproduces a wide sampling of the work of Audubon's notable predecessors and disciples, including Peterson's own justly famous paintings. This new systematic arrangement of the prints, complete with informative commentaries about each bird, made it possible to correct many of the problems or errors in Audubon's original edition revealed by later scholarship. The colorful captions in the back provide fascinating commentaries on each featured bird.
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Conditie	Goed — Slipcase partially discoloured at the front, dust jacket slightly discoloured at spine.
Prijs	€ 125,00

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