Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces. Illustrated by the Author and Oscar Bessau. With an Appendix by Lieut. Campbell Hardy.
Philadelphia. John W. Moore. 1856. 8vo. 23cm, the [enlarged] first American edition, in 2 volumes, xi,[iv],514 & 517,[iii]8pp., ads., with 12 fine wood engraved plates with tissue guards, in the original gilt and blind decoration red cloth, pictorial (moose) decoration in gilt on the upper cover repeated in blind on the bottom, light internal damp stain, new endpapers, expertly restored, a very good set. W&S p130, Heckscher #1199. T.P.L. 3672. Sabin 38913. Sheets p62. This edition not in Lande. cf. Waterston p96.Howes L-87. Clark III: 341. (Cdn). Item #42090
Contains several additional parts written between 1846 and 1856. "Adventures of a Angler in Canada". (1848). As well, this American edition contains material not in the London edition (1854): "The Sources of the Potomac in volume one & A Tour to the River Restigouche" and "A Winter in the South" in volume two. The book contains the author's travels and his hunting and fishing excursions to Quebec, New Brunswick, the Alleghanies, along the Mississippi, in the Southern States, and in the Lake Superior. Lanman, a writer of some merit, spent most of his time travelling around the back country. He thought of this work as "a kind of cyclopedia of American scenery, personal adventure, and of travelling incidents, calculated to exhibit the manners and customs of our people, and interest the lovers of natural history and the various arts of sporting." The travels include a trip to the head of the Mississippi, a tour of the river Saguenay in Canada, hunting in the Allegheny mountains, an excursion in western Maryland and Virginia, and a trip from Washington to Florida, New Orleans and back up the Mississippi in the winter of 1835. An important collection by one of the foremost travelers.
Price: $600.00