The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana

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La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François Alexandre Frederic | The expanded second English edition of Liancourt's Travels

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La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François Alexandre Frederic

Travels Through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois and Upper Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797. With an Authentic Account of Lower Canada. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1800


4 vols., 8vo (211 x 125 mm). Translated by H. Neuman, 3 folding maps, 9 folding tables, 4 pp. advertisements; occasional spotting, a few maps with neat closed tears to gutters, one reinforced. Speckled contemporary calf with blocked geometric patterning, black morocco title labels, gilt, speckled edges; rebacked, covers somewhat rubbed. 


The second — and most extensive — English-language edition of this important narrative of travel in the United States and Canada in the last decade of the eighteenth century, after the French first edition and the briefer English translation of the previous year. 


REFERENCE

ESTC T84211; Federal Hundred 82; Howes L106; Sabin 39057

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