A Peep at the Western World;
by L., T. D. [Landon. T. D.?]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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About This Item
CANADIAN & AMERICAN TRAVELS
first edition small 8vo. [4],iv, 126pp., 1 text illustration, original pink grained cloth, printed paper title label on front cover, old water stain at lower gutter corner of front cover and adjacent area of spine, cloth generally slightly dusty, small piece chipped from upper edge of title label, else generally very good. Uncommon.
Inscribed on front pastedown endpaper "E. Farrington/ Southampton/ 1863".
Library Hub (formerly COPAC) locates in B.L., Cambridge, Oxford, N.L.S. & T.C.D.. Oxford give the anonymous author as T. D. Landon but on what basis we do not know. T. D. L. had published "Narrative of a Journey through India" in London in 1857, with the pseudonym again in some cases identified as Landon.
Describes the voyage from Liverpool to Halifax and journey thereafter through parts of modern Canada (p.9- 90) and then parts of New York and Pennsylvania states in U.S.A.
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- Bookseller
- P & B Rowan (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58350
- Title
- A Peep at the Western World;
- Author
- L., T. D. [Landon. T. D.?]
- Format/Binding
- Original cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Russell Smith
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- canada usa americana
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