TRAVELS THROUGH THE CANADAS; Containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on some of the Rivers and Lakes...
London: Richard Phillips, 1807. Abridged edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Very good condition. Item #017709
This work, apparently originally bound with "Millin's Travels" in Phillips' "A Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages and Travels," is complete but without a separate title page. 232 pages of text, followed by [vii] pages of index and [i] page of binder's instructions. Bound in recent blue leather with attractive orange paper-covered boards. Complete with four attractive engraved folding plates; Quebec from Cape Diamond; Fall of Montmorenci in Winter; Fall of the Grande Chandiere, on the Outaonais River; Canadian Minuets (indoor party scene). Very minor rippling to the top corner of pages 121-183. Title continues "...with an Account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces: to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and customs of several of the Indian nations of North and South America." See Sabin 31489, 62506.
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