Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)Herrick, Francis Hobart
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Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Herrick, Francis Hobart
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
17. Copy of the third Will, "No. 169, of Madame Anne
Moynet, widow of M. Jean Audubon, living at his house
called "La Gerbetière," and situated near the village
of Port-Launay, not far from Couëron," December 26, 1819 366
18. Copy of a portion of the fourth and last will of
Madame Jean Audubon, living at the house of "The Turtle
Doves" ("Les Tourterelles"), at Couëron, July 16, 1821 367
19. Notice of the death of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, from
the official registry of Nantes, Nantes, February 19,
1818 369
20. Letter of Lieutenant Jean Audubon to Francis
Dacosta, his American agent and attorney, relating to
the conduct of his son, and to the lead mine at "Mill
Grove" farm, transliterated from photographic copy of
duplicate (Letter No. 4) in Jean Audubon's letter-book.
Nantes, March 10, 1805 370
21. Letters of John James Audubon to Claude François
Rozier, father, and to Ferdinand Rozier, son,
immediately preceding and following his active
partnership in business with the latter, 1807 and 1812 372
APPENDIX II
AUDUBON'S EARLY DATED DRAWINGS MADE IN FRANCE AND
AMERICA
Drawings now in the collections of Mr. Joseph Y.
Jeanes of Philadelphia, and formerly belonging to Mr.
Edward Harris, of Moorestown, New Jersey; of Mr. John
E. Thayer, Lancaster, Massachusetts, and of Harvard
University 375
APPENDIX III
"THE BIRDS OF AMERICA"
1. Final Lists of Subscribers to _The Birds of America_,
folio edition, as published by Audubon in 1839 380
2. Prospectus of _The Birds of America_, as issued
in 1828, when ten Numbers of the original folio were
engraved 386
3. Prospectus of the Second (partial) Edition of _The
Birds of America_, issued by John Woodhouse Audubon,
through Messrs. Trubner & Company, London, 1859 389
APPENDIX IV
Authentic Likenesses of Jean Jacques Fougère Audubon 392
APPENDIX V
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Containing a fully annotated list of Audubon's writings,
biographies, criticism, and Auduboniana 401
INDEX 457
ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME II
Audubon. After a portrait by George P. A. Healy, 1838.
Photogravure _Frontispiece_
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