Audubon's Birds of America at the Beinecke
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Antiquarian bookseller William Reese discusses John James Audubon, Yale's two copies of his Birds of America elephant folios, and his contribution to American natural history. Birds of America is in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library collection.
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