title: John James Audubon and The Birds of America: A Visionary Achievement in Ornithology Illustration (The Huntington Library Classics)
author:  Lee A. Vedder 
description: <div><b>Lee A. Vedder</b> is the Luce Curatorial Fellow in American Art at the New York Historical Society in New York City, serving as the primary curator of its painting and sculpture collections. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland and specializes in British and American art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.</div>
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  Title: Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5)  
  An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America  
    
  Author: John James Audubon  
    
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