London: William Innys, 1731. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 11 1/4" x 9". Engraving from "A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated with a Hundred and four Copper Plates, Engraven from the Life, Published by the author Eleazer Albin, and carefully colour'd by his Daughter and Himself, from the Originals, drawn from the live Birds." The beautifully hand colored print depicts a Black Eagle. Eleazer Albin (1690-1742) was an English naturalist and watercolor painter who wrote and illustrated several books on..... More

London: William Innys, 1731. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 11 1/4" x 9". Engraving from "A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated with a Hundred and four Copper Plates, Engraven from the Life, Published by the author Eleazer Albin, and carefully colour'd by his Daughter and Himself, from the Originals, drawn from the live Birds." The beautifully hand colored print depicts a green parrot perched on a stand, with a yellow head and shoulders, and red and blue feathers at its..... More

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6 1/4" x 9 7/8" Hand colored lithograph depicting two American Bitterns - a male and a female. From the First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints. More

Japan: Abbeville Press, 1985. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 39.5" x 26.5". Beautiful print of three orioles from second facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. Published in conjunction with the Audubon Society, the edition commemorates the two hundredth birthday of John James Audubon. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an..... More

Amsterdam: 1971. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 26.5" x 39.5". Beautiful print of cuckoos from first facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. The model for these images was an original set of Havell engravings, provided by Teyler's Museum in Haarlem, Holland. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist..... More

Paris: Langlois and Rousseau. Stipple engraving. 23 x 17 inches. Proof before letters. Shows some light foxing, edge fraying, scuffs and surface dirt, otherwise in very good condition. A gorgeous depiction of red bellied toucan (Ramphastos dicolorus), a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae, the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. This species is found in southern and eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and extreme northeastern Argentina. Plate 6 from "Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle..... More

London: George Edwards, 1750. Original print. Copper-plate engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" London: George Edwards, 1750. Exquisitely colored Macaw parrot. Plate 159 in "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", published by Edwards between 1743 and 1751. The blue-and-yellow Macaw is native to South America. George Edwards (1694-1773), the "father of British ornithology", was an English naturalist and ornithologist. More

Dusseldorf: Arnz. Lithograph with hand coloring. 24 x 19 inches. Shows some minor wear to edges and some light foxing. In very good condition. A beautiful illustration of a Common Ostrich in profile with aerial view of skull, presented as 1/3 of natural size. This is plate 85 from Goldfuss' 'Naturalists Atlas', a collection of large folio sized lithographs published in serial form (unbound) in Dusseldorf by Arnz from 1824-1842. Georg August Goldfuss (1782-1848) was a German paleontologist, botanist, and..... More

Florence: Vanni. Engraving with hand coloring. 18 x 14.5 inches. One small tears at right edge, image unaffected. Shows some minor wear and staining at edges. In very good condition. An expressive depiction of an American (or Common) Nightjar, a nocturnal New World insectivore. Plate 100 from 'Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli' (Florence, 1767). More

Amsterdam: Christiann Sepp. Engraving. with hand coloring. 20.5 x 14.25 inches. Shows some light toning at edges. In very good condition. From Nozeman and Sepp's "Nederlandsche vogelen," published in Amsterdam between 1770-1829. This five volume compendium described the birds of the Netherlands. Cornelius Nozeman, (1721-1786) a Dutch minister and an ornithologist. More

Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838. Print. Hand colored engraving. Sheet measures 15 3/4" x 10 1/2" This print of a catbird was printed in "Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba" by Ramon de la Sagra. Gray Catbirds are relatives of mockingbirds, and they share that groups vocal abilities, copying the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make their own song. More

Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838. Print. Hand colored engraving. Sheet measures 15 3/4" x 10 1/2" This print of a red-legged thrush was printed in "Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba" by Ramon de la Sagra. The beautiful bird is native to the Caribbean. More

Nuremburg: Adam Ludwig Wirsing, 1772. Print. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring on laid paper. Image measures 11 1/2" x 7 1/2". Sheet measures 17 1/2" x 10". This beautiful 18th century engraving depicts a cotton bird's nest, with two eggs. Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1733-1797) was a German engraver and publisher based in Nuremberg. In very good condition. Full original margins. Wirsing created the work after Barbara Dietzsch to appear as watercolors. Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706 - 1783) was a...... More