Description: Travels Through Lower Canada and the United States of North America in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808. By John Lambert. London: Richard Phillips, 1810. Volume I only, First Edition, 496 pp, six color plates, 2 black and white plates, 3/4 leather marbled boards. Missing frontispiece, xiv-xii pp, & 19-20 pp, ex-library, 8.25 x 5.25", 8vo. In poor condition. As is. Front board very fragile - almost detached from binding. Edges of boards & corners are scuffed, bumped, and worn. General soiling exhibited on both boards. Leather spine heavily worn & rubbed, title label illegible. Blank bookplate found on front paste-down. No front end-page or fly. Title page missing a large piece, including half of author's last name & publishing information. Preliminary pages fragile. All plates exhibit ex-library ink stamps. Light foxing and instances of finger-soiling throughout text-block. No known previous ownership or marginalia. Binding is intact, but extremely fragile. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. John Lambert was a traveler, author, and painter in water colors. He travelled to Lower Canada in 1806, officially to assist the encouragement of the cultivation of hemp in the province, with a view to freeing Great Britain from dependence on the Northern European market, then placed in a precarious position by Napoleon's Berlin decree. His efforts in this direction failed, but he remained three years in North America, traveling from Quebec and Montreal to New York, South Carolina, Georgia, and Boston. His informal and highly readable account of his travels and observations provide much valuable and interesting information regarding social life, education, religion, the aboriginal population, politics, agriculture, trade, manufactures, and ship-building. Lambert described the Native American's way of life and their decline, divided the population of the towns and countryside into social classes, and with numerous anecdotes recounted the ways and customs of the habitants and the town-dwellers. His illustrations for the work are slightly naive but nevertheless striking. FORN-MSB-1023-0760-HK807
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: John Lambert
Publisher: Richard Phillips
Topic: Travel
Subject: Canada
Original/Facsimile: Original
