Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760 : with observations upon the state of the colonies / by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicat of Greenwich.
Alternate Title(s):
Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and 1760
Edition:
Edition the third / revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by the author.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, 1798.
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 209, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsE162 .B87 1798+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Aquatint engraved by Neele; after Thomas Davies. Map by engraved by James Neele.Pages141 and 142 are folding tables paginated in each case on the recto, the verso being blank.English short title catalogue, T110013Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 9359BEIN Egf +759c: Bound with His Journal of a tour to Corsica. London, 1804. Has Prof. Tinker's bookplate.MUDD Egf +759c and SML,FRA 553 +1775d: 28 x 22 cm.BAC: British Art Center copy bound in later three quarter brown black stamped morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate: Alfred Barmore Maclay. Includes additional illustrations: "The Falls of Niagara in Canada" laid in; "Passaic Falls" mounted at front.
Contents:
Preface to the third edition -- Introduction -- Travels -- Appendixes; viz.: No. 1. Catalogue of trees, plants, birds, fishes, animals, andc. mentioned in the course of this work; with their common names and the names given them by Catasby and Linnæus -- No. 2. Tables and statements relating to the commercial situation of the United States, both before and since the American war -- No. 3. Anecdotes of the Indians -- No. 4. [Anecdotes] of several branches of the Fairfax family now domiciliated in Virginia -- No. 5 Diary of the weather. [1760-1762].
Subject Terms:
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1692–1782. | Fairfax family. | Meteorology -- Virginia -- Williamsburg -- United States -- Observations. | Natural history -- United States. | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. | United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | United States -- Commerce. | Maclay, Alfred Barmore -- Bookplate. | Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876–1963 -- Bookplate.