DELINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY & CHARACTER

by Audubon, John James

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NY:: Baker,, 1926. Hardcover; spine ends & cover tips worn; 36 pages stained at foot of gutter, (from minimal to .75x1-inch); 3 pages have faint tan stain extending into text; ink name inside front cover on pictorial endpaper.. + bibliography. With frontispiece portrait of Audubon. Besides describing birds & animals he painted, Audubon recorded observations of Ohio River; Great Pine Swamp; Earthquake [at New Madrid]; Kentucky Sports; Colonel [Daniel] Boon[e]; Florida Keys; Bay of Fundy; Kentucky Barbecue on Fourth of July; Maple Sugar Camp; Natchez in 1820; + four dozen other stories of people, places, events Audubon (1785-1851) saw in his travels.