Travels though the Canadas, hand-colored issue

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Lot 82 | Travels though the Canadas, hand-colored issue
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Travels though the Canadas, hand-colored issue

George Heriot, 1807

HERIOT, George (1766-1844). Travels though the Canadas. London: T. Gillet for Richard Phillips, 1807.



First edition, issue with hand-colored plates, of "the earliest and most important aquatint book published on Canada" (Hill). As postmaster-general of British North America from 1799 to 1816, Heriot devoted himself to travel across Canada and the United States. He describes the fur trade, his voyages to the North, and cod fishery, devoting the second part of the text to a scholarly study of the Native peoples of the Americas, including Father Rasles's vocabulary of the Algonquin languages and other information drawn from Jesuit reports. This work also contains one of the best contemporary accounts of the Loyalist settlements in Canada. The fine illustrations are all after Heriot himself, and it was issued both colored and uncolored. Hill 801; Sabin 31489; Streeter sale 3658 (colored); Streeter sale 3658; Abbey Travel 618 (plates only); see Prideaux, Aquatint Engraving, pp. 254-255.



Quarto (262 x 216mm). "Directions for placing the plates" bound after prefatory material. Without 8pp. advertisements. Folding view of Quebec as frontispiece, hand-colored folding map, and 26 plates, 5 of which folding (frontispiece and map reinforced at folds and edges, some toning and spots, occasional offsetting). Contemporary mottled calf gilt (rebacked with endpapers renewed).

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