John James Audubon’s masterpiece Birds of America is the subject of an exhibit opening at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on Saturday, July 27. Audubon and the Double Elephant Folio will feature volumes 2 and 3 of the four-volume set, on loan from Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The exhibit will be on view through July 31, 2016 (13 months), on the Museum’s third floor, adjacent to its Birds of Connecticut exhibit. The original edition of Birds of America, also known as the Double Elephant Folio because of its size, was printed on handmade paper with each volume measuring an impressive 40 by 27 inches. Bound in four volumes, it was published in Edinburgh by W. H. Lizars in 1826 and in London by R. Havell between 1827 and 1838. The two volumes set for display are from one of two Havell edition sets owned by Yale University. The

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