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WELD, Isaac; : Travels Through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797

London, John Stockdale, 1799, First edition.

4to [27.5 x 12 cm]; xxiv, 464 pp, 16 plates and maps (complete as per list) including folding colored map, other map, 3 plans, etched frontis, tissue guards., rebacked preserving original leather spine with gilt title lettering and decorations, marbled boards, internal hinge cracked but firm, name on title, interior is clean and fine, with light foxing on a few leaves, including some plates, mostly marginal.

Howes W235. Sabin 102541. TPL 708. A good first edition of these important travels. The plates include several of Niagara, Quebec city, Cohoz Falls, Mount Vernon, Bethlehem, views, etc. The maps include a large folding colored map of northern states of America and a map of Upper and Lower Canada. Clark II, 132: 'Weld landed at Philadelphia in November, 1795, from which he made excursions in all directions. On one of these he visited Baltimore, Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon. On another he moved west to York and Lancaster, the northern neck of Virginia, and Williamsburg and Norfolk, apparently going as far south as the Dismal Swamp. At Williamsburg he noted that the capital was crumbling to pieces, that William and Mary was a grammar school rather than a college, that the church was out of repair, and that the hospital for the insane was not well regulated. On his return he journeyed to Richmond and west to the mountains and, as was usual with travelers, he described Rock Bridge. After coming back to Philadelphia he went to Canada', including Montreal, Quebec, Kingston, Niagara, Detroit, etc. A highly popular account, translated into several languages and with many later printings, including a second edition in the same year in two volumes using the same material, and much on social, economic, agricultural conditions, customs, topography, etc. Howes W235. Sabin 192541. Lande 890. TPL 708. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

Weld, Isaac : Travels through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797

John Stockdale, London, 1807

Weld, Isaac (1774-1856). 1807. WITH 16 PLATES AND MAPS.
Travels through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. 4th. ed. London: John Stockdale, 1807. 8 ½”h x 5 ½”w. Two volumes (427, 376 pages). Owner’s signature (1814). Full leather. Pastedowns and free-endpapers stained at edges. Hinges starting. Corners bumped. Based on 38 letters Weld sent to friends in Great Britain.

Sixteen plates and maps, including five folding maps:

1. "Part of the United States of North America.” Imprint: “Published 15th Nov’r. 1798, by J. Stockdale, Piccadilly." 16”w x 18 ½”h. Two small spots.

2. "Plan of the City of Washington.” Imprint: “Published by J. Stockdale Piccadilly 16th. Sep’r. 1798." 7”h x 8 ½”w. Light foxing. Phillips, Maps and Views of Washington and District of Columbia, PW 37.

3. "A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada 1798.” Imprint: “Published Nov’r. 10th. 1798 by J. Stockdale Piccadilly." 7”h x 9”w.

4. "A Plan of the City of Quebec." 7”h x 9 ½”w. Light offsetting.

5. "An Eye Sketch of the Falls of Niagara.” Imprint: “London Published by J. Stockdale Piccadilly 16th Nov’r. 1798." 6 ½”h x 8 ½”w.

Howes W235.

Weld, Isaac : TRAVELS THROUGH THE STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, AND THE PROVINCES OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA, DURING THE YEARS 1795, 1796, AND 1797

Printed for John Stockdale, London, 1799 2nd ed

An exceptionally nice clean, tight and bright Two Volume Set (complete). Rebound in modern buckram cloth the book blocks were trimmed a tad in the binding process. All sixteen plates and maps are exceptionally nice. The hand-colored Map of the NORHTERN STATES has an old tape repair on the center fold. The author's travels and his observations printed here constituted one of the popular travel narratives leading to many emmigrating to North America. Volume I, 427pp; and Volume II, 376pp (no ads as called for in Howes). Each volume is signed vy Cyrus Morrall who was a 19th century English merchant, and each book has the bookplate of George Merryweather, the British inventor who was most famous for the "tempest prognosticator" an early weather device. Howes W-235., very good+, rebound in brown buckram cloth (hardcover). Illustr: all 16 plates and maps

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