American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
WANSEY, Henry. The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America, in the Summer of 1794. Salisbury: J. Easton, 1796.
WANSEY, Henry. The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America, in the Summer of 1794. Salisbury: J. Easton, 1796.
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024
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600
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American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
WANSEY, Henry. The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America, in the Summer of 1794. Salisbury: J. Easton, 1796.
WANSEY, Henry. The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America, in the Summer of 1794. Salisbury: J. Easton, 1796.
8vo (229 x 152 mm). Copper-engraved portrait of George Washington and one aquatint plate. Original drab boards, uncut and unopened (old rebacking).
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, printed on pale blue paper, Howe's second issue. Wansey, a traveller and antiquary, landed at Halifax in April 1794, making his way south to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, where he visited President and Mrs. Washington and acquired an account of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. His narrative is replete with miscellaneous observations on American culture and phenomena. Clark II:127; Howes W-86; Sabin 101241.
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