119 copies of John James Audubon’s first edition of Birds of America are known to be still intact. Most of those in possession of the book are listed below.
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
- American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY.
- American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
- Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
- Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris, France.
- Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA.
- Boston Public Library, Boston, MA.
- Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
- The British Library, London, England.
- Brown University, Providence, RI.
- Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY.
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA.
- California State Library, Sacramento, CA.
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Charleston Museum, Charleston, SC.
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH.
- College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
- Columbia University, New York, NY.
- Copenhagen University Library, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- Duke University, Durham, NC.
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL.
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.
- Harvard University (two copies), Cambridge, MA.
- Historical Association of Southern Florida, Miami, FL.
- The Huntington, San Marino, CA.
- Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN.
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
- John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Audubon, PA.
- John James Audubon State Park, Henderson, KY.
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- The Legislative Library of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
- Library of Congress (two copies), Washington, DC.
- Library of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.
- Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada.
- Liverpool Public Library, Liverpool, England.
- Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
- Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan.
- Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee WI.
- Minneapolis Athenæum, Minneapolis, MN
- The Mitchell Library, Glasgow, England.
- The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY.
- Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR.
- Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
- Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
- National Audubon Society, New York, NY
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
- National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Natural History Museum (two copies), London, England.
- New-York Historical Society, New York, NY.
- New York Public Library (four copies), New York, NY.
- North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC.
- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
- Paisley Central Library, Paisley, Scotland.
- Peabody Institute, Peabody, MA.
- Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
- Providence Athenæum, Providence, RI.
- The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH.
- The Royal Library, Windsor, England.
- The R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA.
- Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library, Leningrad, Russia.
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
- Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX.
- State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
- State Library of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
- Thurgood Marshall State Law Library, Annapolis Maryland.
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
- Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada.
- Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
- Transylvania University, Lexington, KY.
- Union College, Schenectady, NY.
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
- University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
- University of Manchester Library, Manchester, England.
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
- University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO.
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
- University of Oxford (two copies), Oxford, England.
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
- The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
- Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
- Yale University (two copies), New Haven, CT.