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Title Travels through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper Canada during the years 1795, 1796 and 1797. |
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Published, Date Stockdale, London,1800. |
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Description Third edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xx, 427; viii, 376pp., 16 engraved maps plans and views, most folding, (1 map hand-coloured in outline, short tear to fold). Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, spines in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece to second, red morocco numbering roundel to fourth, others richly gilt, raised bands, citron edges, tiny defect to head of spine vol ii, a fine fresh set in country house condition. |
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Note "In 1795, having decided to explore the United States and Canada, [Weld]set sail from Dublin for Philadelphia. He spent a little over two years in America. Often guided by Indians, he explored the vast forests and great rivers. While in the towns he mixed in the best society, and he met George Washington. He returned home at the close of 1797 'without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit [North America]', and published in 1799 his Travels through ... North America and ... Canada. The work was well received and it went to several English editions and was translated into French, German, and Dutch. It was, however, described as 'a silly book by one Weld', one of a number of European 'birds of passage' whose books had done 'much mischief' and whose enquiries often bothered George Washington (letter of Richard Peters, American patriot and jurist, to James Madison). None the less, his descriptions were influential because they were relatively early and were long included in compilations of travellers' reports on the United States in this period, despite his general lack of sympathy with the American patriots." (ODNB). |
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