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Sketches of Lower Canada, Historical and Descriptive; with the author's Recollections of the Soil and Aspect; the morals, Habits
by Joseph Sansom (c1765-1826)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
301+xvi pages. Duodemo (7 1/4" x 4 1/4") bound in full leather with black label and gilt stamping to spine. [Sabin: 76706] First edition.
Written by an American from Philadelphia who has nothing good to say about either the French or the British; the editor, for his part, has little good to say about the author. "The Editor of this London Journal has preferred to allow Mr. Sansom to speak for himself in his own words.. that, as a specimen of Americanisms, used by a man of good education, the work would be a greater curiosity to those English readers, who are not aware of the deterioration which the language has suffered in the United States." The second edition, published in Britain, deletes anti-British chapters and Sansom's enumeration of "palpably erroneous reports" by Bouchette and others.
Condition:
Stamps to title page with head corner repaired, damp staining to head margins, new end papers, lacking frontispiece portrait. Rebound in leather with gilt stamping to spine and black label in gilt lettering. Over all a very nice copy.
Written by an American from Philadelphia who has nothing good to say about either the French or the British; the editor, for his part, has little good to say about the author. "The Editor of this London Journal has preferred to allow Mr. Sansom to speak for himself in his own words.. that, as a specimen of Americanisms, used by a man of good education, the work would be a greater curiosity to those English readers, who are not aware of the deterioration which the language has suffered in the United States." The second edition, published in Britain, deletes anti-British chapters and Sansom's enumeration of "palpably erroneous reports" by Bouchette and others.
Condition:
Stamps to title page with head corner repaired, damp staining to head margins, new end papers, lacking frontispiece portrait. Rebound in leather with gilt stamping to spine and black label in gilt lettering. Over all a very nice copy.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Sketches of Lower Canada, Historical and Descriptive; with the author's Recollections of the Soil and Aspect; the morals, Habits
- Author
- Joseph Sansom (c1765-1826)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Kirk and Mercein
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1817
- Pages
- 301+xvi pages
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CANADA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration;
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