Audubon's Birds of America

Subtitled The Audubon Society baby elephant folio, this spectacular new edition reproduces all 435 of Audubon's hand-colored engravings from the original plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the Double elephant folio. Reorganized and annotated by the famed Roger Tory Peterson (who also provides an excellent color- illustrated introduction), this edition is also notable for following the modern phylogenetic order for birds, that is, following the evolutionary history of genetically-related groups, and arranging them (e.g. hawks, swans, pigeons) in discrete sections. 113/4x15", slipcased. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR