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Published by Sir Richard Phillips, GB, 1822
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Eng. title vignette & 4 sepia plates on two leaves. 8 and 128 pages. Very clean tight text but some spotting/browning mostly to early and late leaves. Bound in ?contemporary full leather. Spine has twin gold rules. Gold on burgundy title label. Binding all sound but a bit worn. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
Published by London. Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co.1822, 1822
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo, 21.5cm, The First London Edition, viii,128p., titlevignette, with 4 sepia tone litho views on 2 plates, incontemporary wavy-grain dark blue cloth and marbled boards, gilttitles along the spine, bookplate, a fine copy. (Qc) Lande 2198.T.P.L. 1185. Sabin 81047. Howes S459. The book includes very gooddescriptions of New York, Quebec and New England by one of the mostprominent and influential scientific figures of the day. The firstedition, from which this was taken, was published in 1820 under thetitle "Remarks, Made on a Short Tour, between Hartford andQuebec. When Benjamin Silliman, professor of chemistry at YaleCollege and author of European travel books,"felt a romantic forthe Foreignness of travel" (in 1811 he had published A Journal oftravels in England, Holland and Scotland), he felt the lure ofQuebec - still a French city in buildings, language, andfortifications. The French Canadians fitted the romantic conceptionof colourful rustic folk, with their 'lighted pipes, red or bluesashes and long conical woolen caps of various colours".Picturesque scenes appeared along the river: Cartes driving intothe water with water-casks, and women pounding their washing at thewater's edge. Toward Montreal, the Professor saw fine tamerscenes. every two or three miles . a little snowy village, withits glittering tin spire" and heard Canadian boat songs form canoeson the river. (Waterston p34).
Published by For Sir Richard Phillips and Co, London, 1822
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rebound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contemporary endpages. Four engraved plates. Usual browning of pages.
SILLIMAN, Dr. Benjamin. A Tour to Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819. London, 1822. 1st English ed. Illus. with two plates (four views). viii, 128pp. Bound in later calf-backed boards. Fine copy. Howes S-459.