Audubon Yellow-Crowned Heron 111 large paper copy of the

large paper copy of the very famous work by Francois Levaillant entitled Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets

Rumold Mercator based this map on his father's great world map of 1569

Over the next few decades

John Gould (1804-1881) published a number of monographs on birds

Audubon Yellow-Crowned Heron 111 large paper copy of theJohn James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as the greatest ornithological book ever produced. This iconic work consisting of 435 double elephant folio sized plates depicting 1,065 different species was printed by the Havells of London between 1827 and 1838. Audubon sketched thousands of birds from life in the wild, and his original watercolors served as the basis for the volume's hand colored lithographs.