Booby Gannet. From The Birds of America Amsterdam Edition
$150 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available
According to Susanne Low, Audubon found the bird he used for this image on Booby Island in the Dry Tortugas. We can see one of the Florida Keys in the distance. In October 1971, employing the most faithful printing method available, the best materials and the ablest craftsmen of their age, the Amsterdam firm of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., in conjunction with the Johnson Reprint Corporation of New York, set out to produce the finest possible limited edition facsimile of the greatest bird book
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