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Printed by T. & G. Palmer for Samuel F. Bradford, Philadelphia: ., 1806 pp. xi, (1) Blank, (1)-339 + a folding chart showing weather in Dublin for the year 1804. Mild foxing. XLib bookplate of Gettysburg Seminary Library on front paste down. XLib stamp on paste down and elsewhere. 8vo. 220 mm. Original full leather binding. Original leather spine label, nicely tooled by a Philadelphia binder. Hardbound. Good. Devonshire born, Carr was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, London, but for health reasons began to travel. Accounts of his journeys around Europe were popular for their light and chatty style. Shortly after the publication of The Stranger in Ireland (1806), Carr was knighted by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. First American Edition. S&S/AI 10096. PAIMP 22. 1st Edition.. Hardcover.

New York: I. Riley & Co., 1807. John Carr's (1772-1832) wrote a series of travel books that were popular, but critics thought him pedestrian and some accused him of plagiarism. His works are scarce to rare now. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the Third American Edition, published one year after the English. Full leather binding, rather worn but sound. The title on the spine is faint but discernable as red & gilt. The text is clean; 334 pages. Floodmarking throughout, but not contaminated. Previous-owner has signed in the rear endpapers with cartoon heads and replicated "the end" on the last page. Quite interesting period calligraphy! The last signature of the textblock seems weak but holding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Third Edition.. Full-Leather. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.

London: No. 6, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars: Richard Phillips, 1806. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. MEDLAND Thomas. NEELE.. VG, 1st ed, 1806, 17 pls, complete, a large paper example. In contemporary worn boards, new tips, gilt tooling. Re-spined, to style, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Internally, large folding frontis, [7], (viii-xiv), [2], [1], 2-530 pp, 17 pls (includes 5 folding, 1 coloured, remainder tinted), marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to fpd (George Montgomery Traherne), 1 pl watermarked J Whatman, no WM dates, text block leaves watermarked 1806, & plates dated 1806. (Folio, 212*258 mm). (Allibone, Graesse 54). Title continues: or A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the year 1805. Carr - travel writer, who in 1807 had his Irish book satirized by Edward Dubois in My pocket-book, or, Hints for a 'ryghte merrie and conceitede' tour, in quarto, to be called, 'The stranger in Ireland'. For this… Read More