Holtham Herbert (6 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good-. Octavo in dust jacket,free front endpaper clipped at the top corner, frontispiece facsimile, xviii, 169 pp., b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Inscribed to previous owner on FFEP. Pristine copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Herbert Holtham (illustrator). 1st Edition. 169pp + large section of 30 b/w plates; black cover with silver lettering to spine; blue dust jacket with Holtham drawing on front is in new clear protective mylar. Hardcover (dj).

Hard Bound Volume. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Editedby Seymour Schwartz.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2000, Purple cloth hardcover in the dust jacket, 168 pages of text and 30 full page black & white illustrations. Condition : As New with the ex-owners gift note tipped in . Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2000 Hard Cover. xv, 168 pp. "Herbert Holtham, a Unitarian minister from Brighton, England, came to the United States in the spring of 1831, and spent several months traveling in the northeast. His travels took him from New York, where his ship landed, to Philadelphia, eastern Pennsylvania, then back to New York, up the Hudson River to Albany, across the entire state on the six-year-old Erie Canal. He stopped in Utica, Rochester, and Buffalo, noting the rapid growth of these cities, especially Rochester, that had occurred in the few years the canal had been open. From Buffalo he crossed into Canada, traveling east along Lake Ontario, past Toronto [then called York] to Ottawa and Montreal; he returned through Lake Champlain to Albany and New York, and continued south to Baltimore and Washington, returning to Philadelphia once again in order to set sail for England. Holtham recorded his impressions of both urban and rural scenes, the people and their opinions, family life, church life and activities, and reports of many conversations he had while traveling. The journal of his travels provides a superior set of impressions of America at the time from a man who brought his skills of perception to the transcription. Beyond the words, the journal contains thirty marvelous pencil and ink drawings of what he saw; scenes of Niagara Falls and downtown Rochester accompany paintings of the Capitol in Washington, a carriage operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia.