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Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies
Uniform Title
Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760
Title
Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.
Edition
Edition the third / revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by the author.
Publication
London : Printed for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, 1798.
Physical Description
xix, [1], 209, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Egf +759c: Bound with His Journal of a tour to Corsica. London, 1804. Has Prof. Tinker's bookplate.
MUDD Egf +759c and SML,FRA 553 +1775d: 28 x 22 cm.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in later three quarter brown black stamped morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate: Alfred Barmore Maclay. Includes additional illustrations: "The Falls of Niagara in Canada" laid in; "Passaic Falls" mounted at front.
Notes
Aquatint engraved by Neele; after Thomas Davies. Map by engraved by James Neele.
Pages141 and 142 are folding tables paginated in each case on the recto, the verso being blank.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Preface to the third edition
Introduction
Travels
Appendixes; viz.: No. 1. Catalogue of trees, plants, birds, fishes, animals, andc. mentioned in the course of this work; with their common names and the names given them by Catasby and Linnæus
No. 2. Tables and statements relating to the commercial situation of the United States, both before and since the American war
No. 3. Anecdotes of the Indians
No. 4. [Anecdotes] of several branches of the Fairfax family now domiciliated in Virginia
No. 5 Diary of the weather. [1760-1762].
References
English short title catalogue, T110013
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 9359
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Genre/Form
Aquatints - 1798.
Engravings - 1798.
Maps.
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