HALL Capt Basil. FORTY ETCHINGS FROM SKETCHES... - Lot 332 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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HALL Capt Basil. FORTY ETCHINGS FROM SKETCHES... - Lot 332 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
HALL Capt Basil. FORTY ETCHINGS FROM SKETCHES MADE WITH THE CAMERA LUCIDA, IN NORTH AMERiCA, IN 1827 AND 1828. Fourth édition. LONDON & EDENBURGH, SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, 1830. Un volume, petit in-folio, de (2) pp., (1) f. liste des 40 gravures, (20) ff. de planches et (20) ff. de texte, demi-reliure de l'époque en toile rouge, étiquette de titre collée sur le premier plat. Coupes et coins frottés, rousseurs claires éparses. Remarquables vues des Amériques et Canada avec paysages, costumes, etc. Howes H46, Clark III 47, TPL 1488. "The author was a captain in the Royal Navy. He arrived in North America in 1827 and began his trip down the St. Laurence river into New England, and thence down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. After time spent there he travelled northeast to Savannah and from there up the east coast back into Canada. The folding map includes the areas west to Arkansas and Missouri and north to Canada"... "his work contains many excellent descriptions of places and conditions that came under his observation.".
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