John James Audubon's Birds of America

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/John_James_Audubon's_Birds_of_America
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:accompaniedByAuthor gptkb:William_MacGillivray
gptkbp:author gptkb:John_James_Audubon
gptkbp:contains illustrations of North American birds
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:King_George_IV
gptkbp:depicts gptkb:Carolina_parakeet
gptkb:ivory-billed_woodpecker
gptkb:bird
gptkbp:format folio
gptkbp:genre gptkb:art
gptkb:science
natural history
gptkbp:hasCompanion gptkb:Ornithological_Biography
gptkbp:highestAuctionPrice $11.5 million
gptkbp:highestAuctionPriceYear 2010
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John James Audubon's Birds of America
gptkbp:illustrator gptkb:John_James_Audubon
gptkbp:influenced ornithological illustration
natural history art
gptkbp:ISBN none (pre-ISBN era)
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:engraver
watercolor
hand-coloring
gptkbp:notableFor scientific accuracy
artistic merit
hand-colored prints
life-size illustrations of birds
one of the most expensive books ever sold
depiction of extinct species
large format (double elephant folio)
gptkbp:notableSale gptkb:Sotheby's
gptkb:Christie's
gptkbp:origin various libraries and museums
gptkbp:originalTitle gptkb:The_Birds_of_America
gptkbp:pieceCount 435
gptkbp:publicationDate 1827
1838
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Robert_Havell_Jr.
gptkb:William_Home_Lizars
gptkbp:subject birds
ornithology
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Carolina_parakeet
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6