Travels Through the Canadas
Travels Through the Canadas
Travels Through the Canadas
Travels Through the Canadas
Travels Through the Canadas

INVENTORY #149641

Travels Through the Canadas

HERIOT, George

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Title continues: "Containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on Some of the Rivers and Lakes; 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." The Scottish civil servant, artist and author George Heriot (1759 – 1839) is noted as a major figure in early Canadian art. Extensive discussion of Indigenous life. Includes a vocabulary of the Algonquin tongue by Father Rasle. List of plates and one page of publisher's ads at rear. Sabin 31489.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Richard Phillips
  • Edition: First Edition, First Printing
  • Date Published: 1807
  • Place Published: London
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    xii, 602, [2] p., interspersed with plates. 28 cm. Fold-out sepia frontispiece view of Quebec. 26 other sepia plates, 6 of which fold out. Plates on slightly heavier paper. Fold-out facsimile colour map at rear. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Respined with original spine laid on. Corners repaired. Hinges reinforced. Foxing. Offsetting from plates. Small tears in top of rear free endpaper.

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