Just inside the doorway of the Northwestern University Library you will find a glass case that contains a first edition set of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, one of only 120 complete sets ...

Keywords John James Audubon, ornithologist, painter, birds, nature, wildlife, "The Birds of America," American history ... at an iconic 1978 photo of its first employees and where they are ...

Audubon was the most famous naturalist painter in America. His masterwork, The Birds of America ... Quadrupeds of North America. A later edition dropped the clunky reference to gestation and ...

The combined talents of Audubon and Havell were required to make that possible, and Birds of America, first published in series form between 1827 and 1838, has been hailed as one of the greatest ...

Audubon’s masterpiece publication, “The Birds of North America” published in sections ... Kaufman also points out that Audubon may have been the first to write scientific descriptions ...

You can look at (but can't touch) one of the original engraved plates from The Birds of America in the Treasures gallery above Hintze Hall. A resized digital edition of Audubon's masterpiece has been ...