Audubon's Western Journal 1849 - 1850. Being the MS. Record of a Trip from New York to Texas, and an Overland Journey through Mexico and Arizona to the Gold-Fields of California
Cincinnati: The Arthur H. Clark Company.
Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Item #11328
Light tone, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket toned, hand-written title on spine, small chips and wrinkling, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; Reprint of the First Edition, with additions and retitling: Journal by John W. Audubon ; with biographical memoir by his daughter, Maria R. Audubon ; introduction, notes, and index by Frank Heywood Hodder ; with folded map, portrait, and original drawings. Wright Howes; edited by William E Hartley III; Wright Howes The Final Edition of USiana: A Descriptive Bibliography; A 392. "John Woodhouse Audubon, the son of the great ornithologist and a naturalist in his own right, records his observations with a party of gold-seekers from Texas, across northern Mexico, and Arizona to the California diggings - a journey of great hardship and disappointment to him." - Western Americana: An annotated bibliography to the microfiche collection of 1012 books and documents of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century; University Microfilms; WA04004. Attractive copy, with the hard-to-find dust jacket. ; 0 pages.
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