Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, e 1787
by Castiglioni, Luigi, 1757-1832
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Milano, Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Marelli..., 1790. Soft Cover. Two volumes: xii,403; vi, 402 pages, [Signatures: *6, A-2A8, 2B1; pi4 (-pi4), A-2A8, 2B1 (-2B10)], 5 folding maps, 9 plates (3 folding), 3 folding tables; 22 cm. Title continues: Con alcune osservazioni sui vegetabili piú utili di quel paese. The three tables (the national debt for 1787; a distance table; a table for conversion of money) are numbered separately and bound in at end of vol. 2. Plates engraved by Benedetto Bordiga. The Count Luigi Castiglioni was a Milanese botanist who visiited the young republic because, he wrote, the recent events in the United States may turn out to be some of the most significant in history. I published translations of chapters on Rhode Island and New Hampshire/ Vermont some years before Antonio Pace's excellent translation of the whole appeared. John Carter Brown Catalog, 1493-1800, III: 3356; Sabin 11413; Clark, T. D., Old South II: 84. Fine in original publisher's wrappers; gift quality. Stock#OB496.
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- Title
- Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, e 1787
- Author
- Castiglioni, Luigi, 1757-1832
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- Soft Cover
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- Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Marelli...
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- Milano
- Date Published
- 1790
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- Italian Traveller to the United States 1785
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