Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany. - Softcover

Wade, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1275679374 ISBN 13: 9781275679375

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany.

Author: William Wade

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP01688600

CollectionID: CTRG95-B2006

PublicationDate: 18460101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: Includes map folded to 11 x 15 cm., copyrighted by Wade in 1845, tipped in on p. [2] of cover. Title of map: Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany. Drawn from nature & engraved by William Wade. Sabin entry under title, does not cite William Wade. Cf. Sabin. NUC indicates map is engraved copper plate, 396 x 16 cm., consisting of six strips, pasted together and folded: NUC, vol. 644, p. 32, col. 3. Errata slip tipped in.

Collation: 32 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 16 cm

About this title

About the Author:

Sir William Wade has had a distinguished career as an academic and, lately, as a practicing member of the Bar. He was Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford and, from 1976, Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge and Master of Gonville and Caius College. He
has served with distinction on numerous government enquiries and is still active in advising governments all over the world on matters concerning constitutional and administrative law. He is a QC and a Fellow of the British Academy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1275679374
• ISBN 13: 9781275679375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102