Audubon Prints - Originals and Signature Fine Art Re-creations

ABBEVILLE EDITION PRINTS FOR SALE

In 1985, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of John James Audubon, the Abbeville Press in New York City in conjunction with The National Audubon Society, offered complete sets in an edition of 350. They were printed in Japan using a 13-color offset printing process. The complete set then sold for $15,000. Some of the complete sets have been broken up and prices of individual prints can now range from the low hundreds to thousands of dollars for the top tiers. These prints, measuring 26 1/2" x 39 1/2" are of fine quality. "They are authenticated by the watermark "Audubon Society Abbeville Press" along the long edge. From a lithography point of view, these editions are particularly known for the sharpness of details on the plate. The Abbeville and the Amsterdam editions are currently the only two facsimile editions that reproduced faithfully the complete set of original Havell edition plates in double elephant folio size, and are comparably priced in retail. The Abbeville edition double elephant folio prints like the ones listed here are increasingly difficult to find, and are highly sought after by the serious collectors as investment grade Audubons.

JUST ADDED! Unique Opportunity: A collector is selling his entire Abbeville set, still in its original crate, for $25,000. Contact us for details. This same set sells for $35,000 from the publishers. This set has all 435 of Audubon's great work. The Abbeville set is superior in quality to the Amsterdams.

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Ivory-billed Woodpecker, plate #66

Here is a rare opportunity to own the Double Elephant Folio Abbeville edition facsimile of Plate 66 produced by the Audubon Society. The Plate is in excellent condition with sharp details that the Abbeville editions are known for. There are a couple of very faint unobtrusive fox marks. Plate dimensions: 39 ½" X 26 1/8". Like all other Abbeville edition prints, this is a facsimile of a Havell edition original, and it reproduces faithfully the original plate, including the very faint patina along the edges of the original plate. This particular Abbeville plate comes from a bound volume, and has some small binder holes along and very close to the left edge (these are easily covered when matted). $1,200 *More info below.

Belted King Fisher, Plate #77

Double elephant folio, 39 1/2" X 26 1/2", with the Watermark "Audubon Society Abbeville Press " along the long edge. In excellent to mint condition. Price : $500

Barn Owl, Plate #171

Double elephant folio, 39 1/2" X 26 1/2", with the Watermark "Audubon Society Abbeville Press " along the long edge. In mint condition $500. SOLD

Mallard Duck Plate # 221

Double elephant folio. Dimensions 39 1/2" X 26 1/2" with the Watermark Audubon Society Abbevile Press along the long edge. Excellent Condition with sharp details on the image that the Abbeville editions are known for. Price : $1,500

Night Heron or Qua Bird, Plate #236

Double elephant folio, 39 1/2" X 26 1/2", with the Watermark "Abbeville Press Audubon Society" along the long edge. In mint condition. $500

Snowy Heron Plate # 242 SOLD

Double elephant folio. Dimensions 39 1/2" X 26 1/2" with the Watermark Audubon Society Abbeville Press along the long edge. Excellent Condition. A few very very minor handling creases (~1/2" ) along the bottom edge and the right edge. This image was painted by Audubon in Charleston, SC, in March 1832 during his visit to see his friend John Bachman, and depicts a beautiful low country plantation scenery. The hunter at the lower right is believed by some Audubon Scholars to be a self-portrait of Audubon. Price : $1,800

Reddish Egret Plate # 256

Double elephant folio. Dimensions 39 1/2" X 26 1/2" with the Watermark Audubon Society Abbevile Press along the long edge. Mint Condition with sharp details on the image that the Abbeville editions are known for. Price : $500

Trumpeter Swan, Plate #406

Double elephant folio, 39 1/2" X 26 1/2", with the Watermark "Abbeville Press Audubon Society" along the long edge. In mint condition. $1,175 SOLD

*The Ornithological Discovery of the Century! And a celebrated symbol of the struggle by the wild life to survive in an ever shrinking wild-life habitat ! Audubon immortalized this majestic woodpecker in his painting done in 1825 while in Louisiana at a time when the forests in the deep South were abundant with this species. Due to its rapidly shrinking habitat from the encroachment of human civilization and the wanton killings by hunters and sportsmen, this magnificent Ivory-billed Woodpecker was not seen since the early 1940’s or so in the United States, and was thought to have sadly been driven to extinction along with other birds that were rather abundant during Audubon’s time (e.g., Passenger Pigeons, Carolina Parrots etc.) In 2005, a team of scientists lead by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology discovered a few of these Ivory-billed woodpeckers still some how managing to survive in the Big Woods region of eastern Arkansas. Their discovery was published in the highly reputed journal, Science (Vol:308, No.5727, pp.1460-62 (2005)), thus sparking considerable excitement and a celebration among bird lovers !

This particular discovery immediately made Audubon’s Ivory-billed Woodpecker one of the most sought after, and a highly coveted plate among Audubon’s bird paintings.

As a result, it is rather difficult to find even the affordable and yet highly collectible high quality facsimiles such as the Amsterdam and Abbeville edition plates of this bird.

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