A Tour Through North America

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. Very Good+. 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Handsomely bound Brown leather spine with raised bands. Gilt title on spine label with gilt decorated panels ( iv). (v) 473pp. Clean green cloth with front leather protective corners. Marbled page edges. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Marbled endpaper. Author toured major cities… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1835. Hardcover. Very good. iv, v, 473 p. 22 cm. Full leather with gilt impressing. Bumped corners and moderate wear to edges. Some light scuffing to front. Worn bookplate and former owner's label on front pastedown. Small ink mark on title. Some foxing to first and last pages. Patrick Shirreff (1791-1876) embarked on an agricultural tour… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1835. Hardcover. Good. v, 322, [2], 331-473 p. 23 cm. Original publisher's binding. Bumped corners, some dents to edges, hinges cracking. Foxing to first and last pages, tears in pp. 269-71. Patrick Shirreff (1791-1876) embarked on an agricultural tour of Upper and Lower Canada and the U.S. before allowing a younger brother to… Read more about this item

8vo in publisher's cloth. v, 473 pp. G+. Spine ends and corners worn; half inch split to the cloth at the top of the front joint. Light wear to boards. Binding is sound. Very light, occasional foxing. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Edinburg, 1835. [4],iv,v,[1],473pp. Modern three-quarter red morocco and paper boards, spine gilt. Minor wear. Internally clean. Untrimmed. Very good. The author, a Scottish farmer from East Lothian, crossed Lake Michigan directly from Canada to Detroit on his way to Chicago, then a hamlet of 150 wooden houses. "Four chapters of the 'Tour' are devoted to an account of travels… Read more about this item

New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint of 1835 edition, 1971, hardcover with red cloth boards, octavo, 473pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.

Edinburgh, 1835. Original cloth [rubbed, soiled moderately]. [1], [blank], iv, v, [blank], 473pp. Text lightly foxed, a couple of signatures springing. Good+. "Shirreff was a level-headed British farmer who was both a good judge of people and of land." Graff. "Four chapters of the 'Tour' are devoted to an account of travels in northern and central Illinois… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1835. First Edition. Shirreff toured the major cities of New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi and Upper Canada from April to November, 1833. Chapters XII-XXI, pp. 81-183, relate his impressions of colonial life in Queenston, Hamilton, York, Cobourg, Peterborough, Montreal, Galt, Guelph, Goderich, St. Thomas, Chatham, Amherstburg, the Talbot settlement, the community of… Read more about this item

SHIRREFF, Patrick. A Tour Through North America; Together With a Comprehensive View of the Canadas and United States, as Adapted for Agricultural Emigration. Edinburgh, 1835. 1st ed. 473pp. Fine copy bound in 19th century calf. Howes S-425. Buck 263. Traveled from St. Louis to Cincinnati by the rivers. "Shirreff seems to have been a careful observer and his book… Read more about this item

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Paperback / softback. New.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing