Antique Bird Prints, original first edition octavo prints by Audubon and many other famous ornithologists

Antique & Vintage Bird Prints

Darvill's Rare Prints has been offering a fine selection of antique and vintage prints
since 1918! Here we show the offering of beautiful original bird prints. Just click on the links below to see what is available from that particular source. Enjoy the treasures!

Audubon's Birds of American first edition prints

Audubon,
John James

The Birds of America
original first edition royal octavo hand-colored lithographs
(1840-1844)

The Birds of America
large original vintage reproductions
(circa 1930s)

Bolton, James

Harmonia Ruralis
(1845)

Natural History of Birds by Brightly and Childs

Brightly & Childs

The Natural History
of Birds (1815)

Buffon, Comte de
(George Louis Le Clerc, Count de Buffon )

Buffon's Complete Works
(1837-1840)

A Natural History...
(1834)

Birds of Great Britain and Ireland by Butler

Butler, Arthur G.
(author)
Gronvold, H. and
Frohawk, F.W. (illustrators)

The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)

British Warblers (1907)

Cassell, Petter,
Galpin & Co.

Book of the Bird
(ca. 1870-1880)

Pigeon Book
(ca. 1870-1880)

Museum of Natural History Birds by Wm Dallas

Dallas, William S.
(Lowry, engraver)

The Museum of
Natural History
(1860)

D'Orbigny, Charles

Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle
(ca. 1860s)
Also mammals, fish, reptiles, shells, etc.

Edwards, George (artist)
Pass, J. (engraver)

Encyclopedia Londinensis
(1796-1828)

Louis Aggasiz Fuertes bird prints from 1902

Fuertes, Louis Aggasiz

New York Fisheries, Game and Forests Commission (1902)

Goldsmith, Oliver

The Earth and Animated Nature (1850-1862)

Gould, John

The Birds of Great Britain
(1862-1873)

A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds
(1849-1861)

Vintage Gould Bird Prints
(circa 1930s-1940s)

Larger Vintage Gould Bird Prints
(circa 1940s-1950s)

Henrik Gronvold Birds of Australia circa 1910-1927

Gronvold, Henik
(illustrator)
Mathews, Gregory M.
(author)
Witherby and Co.
(publishers)

The Birds of Australia (1910-1927)

Hayes, William
(author, engraver, colorist)
Hayes, Anne
Hayes, Emily
Hayes, Matilta
(principal engravers and colorists)

Bulmer and Co.
(publishers)

Portraits of the Curious Exotic Birds...
(1794-1817)

Jardine, Sir William
(Lizars, William, engraver)

The Naturalist's Library (1830s-1840s)

Martyn, William Frederic

A New Dictionary of Natural History; or Compleat [sic] Universal Display of Animated Nature...
(1785-1787)

Meyers Konversations: Lexicon birds prints 1896

Meyers Konversations: Lexikon
(published in Leipzig and Vienna)

Antique chromolithographs of birds (circa 1896)

Morris, Beverley

British Game Birds and Wildfowl (1855)

Morris,
Reverend Francis Orpen

British Birds
(1851-1903)

Nests and Eggs

Prang, Louis

Animate Creation (1898)

Shaw, George
and
Nodder, Frederick

The Naturalist's Miscellany
(1789-1813)

Birds

see Natural History page for other categories of animals

Shaw, George

Zoological Lectures,
delivered to the
Royal Institution
(1800-1819)

Birds

see Natural History page for other categories

Studer, Jacob H.
Jasper, Theodore

The Birds of North America
(1878) color lithographs

The Birds of North America
(1878) two-tone lithographs

Thorburn, Archibald

British Birds
(1918)

Familiar Wild Birds
by Thorburn, Lydon, Turck and other artists
(circa 1903)

Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army ...

R. Ridgway and
G.M. Wheeler

Vol V: Zoology (Birds)
(circa 1875) and some plates from the USPRR (circa 1860)

Birds of North America (1860)

Weir, Harrison

The Poultry Book
(1853)

Wilkes, John

Encyclopedia Londinensis
(1796-1828)

Wilson, Alexander

American Ornithology
(1808-1829)

Wright, Lewis
(Cassell publisher)

Illustrated Book of Poultry
(1880)

The New Book of Poultry
(1902)

Wyman & Sons

Lloyd's Natural History
(circa 1890)

Miscellaneous Antique Bird Prints from circa 1900

Unidentified Bird Prints
(circa 1900)

Miscellaneous Bird Prints
(offset lithographs)

Antique bird chromolithographs from circa 1890

Unidentified Bird Prints from mostly unknown sources

Miscellaneous Bird Prints
(Chromolithographs, circa 1890)

Miscellaneous Bird Prints
(hand-coloured lithographs and others by artists such as J.G. Keulemans, circa 1800-1900)

Unidentified Bird Prints
(circa 1900)

Miscellaneous Bird Prints
(small tinted halftones)

Birds and Nature Magazine (ca. 1899-1904)

A.W. Mumford
(publisher)

Birds and Nature Magazine
(photo offset lithographs, circa 1899-1904)

Lynn Bogue Hunt

Vintage bird illustrations
(1917-1944)

Walter A. Weber

Vintage bird illustrations
(1930s-1940s)

Jacob Bates Abbott

Vintage bird illustrations
(1930s-1940s)

Miscellaneous vintage and antique bird prints from various, unidentified sources

J. L. Ridgway

New York Fisheries, Game and Forests Commission
(1896)

New York Fisheries, Game and Forests Commission
(1898)

Classic Shorebird Decoys limited edition prints 1971

Milton C. Weiler

Classic Shorebird Decoys
(Limited edition 240/975, 1971)

Imao Keinen

Birds and Flowers of All Seasons
(1984)

Arthur Singer

Vintage Bird Prints
(1956-1957)

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