La Rochefoucault-Liancourt, François-Alexander-Frédéric, duc de
Travels through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada
£882
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an Authentic Account of Lower Canada. London: for R. Phillips, 1799. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to (26.5 x 19.6cm), xxiii 642 [12], [2] 320 321*-364* 321-686 [10] pp., contemporary mottled calf, rebacked retaining old labels, 3 engraved folding maps (each with repaired closed handling tears to inner folds and variable faint damp-staining, 'Map of the Northern Provinces of the United States’ partially split along one fold), 6 letterpress tables to rear of volume 1 (4 of which folding) [Sabin 3907]
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Bookplates (Murray Esqre of Crieff) to front pastedowns.
Footnote
Published the same year as the first edition in the original French.