Tag: Birds Of America

The Longmont Museum to Show "John James Audubon: American Artist & Naturalist"

Longmont, CO.- The Longmont Museum is proud to present an exhibition of 64 prints from Audubon’s first edition “The Birds of America”, plus four large animal prints from his later Imperial Quadrupeds edition and prints from later editions and seve…

Sotheby’s Smashes World Record for Any Piece of English Furniture Sold at Auction

LONDON.- In the midst of the excitement surrounding the record price achieved for Audubon’s Birds of America yesterday, another world record was set in a different field. An exquisite serpentine-shaped Harrington Commode, dating to circa 1770 and …

Sotheby’s Smashes World Record for Any Piece of English Furniture Sold at Auction

LONDON.- In the midst of the excitement surrounding the record price achieved for Audubon’s Birds of America yesterday, another world record was set in a different field. An exquisite serpentine-shaped Harrington Commode, dating to circa 1770 and …

Audubon’s "Birds of America" Fetches $10 Million Establishing a New World Record

LONDON (AP).- It’s quite a nest egg. John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, fetched more than $10 million at auction on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive published book. With its 43…

Sotheby’s Sets New World Record for a Printed Book at Auction with Audubon’s Birds of America

LONDON.- Moments ago, in a crowded saleroom in Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries in London, a magnificent, rare, copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America sold for £7,321,250, establishing a new world record price for any printed book …

Sotheby’s London To Hold a Sale of Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings

LONDON.- On 7th December Sotheby’s London will hold a sale of ‘Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, The Property of the Trustees of the 2nd Baron Hesketh’s Will Trust’. The …

Sotheby’s London To Hold a Sale of Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings

LONDON.- On 7th December Sotheby’s London will hold a sale of ‘Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, The Property of the Trustees of the 2nd Baron Hesketh’s Will Trust’. The …

Sotheby’s London To Hold a Sale of Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings

LONDON.-A rare copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” billed as the world’s most expensive book, is up for sale alongside a first edition of Shakespeare’s plays at an auction to set book lovers’ pulses racing, Sotheby’s said Thursday. One of …

Sotheby’s London To Hold a Sale of Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings

LONDON.- On 7th December Sotheby’s London will hold a sale of ‘Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, The Property of the Trustees of the 2nd Baron Hesketh’s Will Trust’. The …

John James Audubon: American Artist and Naturalist at the Boise Art Museum

BOISE, ID.- John James Audubon (1785 – 1851) is known throughout the world for setting the standard against which all wildlife art is measured. He assured his place in art history by changing forever the way birds are illustrated. While replicating phy…

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