Audubon the Naturalist, A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 21 — Chapter XXVII · EASTERN VISIT AND EXPLORATIONS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

Reading edition

In a letter written to Audubon by his engraver, January 20, 1831, Havell said: "Since writing my last, I have a new subscriber from America, the Honble. T. H. Perkins, Boston Athenæum. I packed it in a tin case, and a wooden one; for the whole I am paid thro. the banking house of the Baring Brothers, & Co., Bishopsgate St."

The copy of The Birds of America in possession of the Boston Society of Natural History bears the following in autographic inscription on the fly-leaf of the first volume:

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