Weld, Isaac (1774-1856). Travels Through the States of North America. London: for John Stockdale, 1799.
2 volumes, 8vo (210 x 127 mm). 15 engraved folding plates, one engraved folding map hand-colored in outline. (Spotting to plates, some offsetting from plates to text.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (upper cover of vol.1 detached, joints splitting, spines worn). Provenance: John Phillips, Edstone (armorial bookplate); Francis Weld Peabody (1881-1927), American physician and professor at Harvard (bookplate).
Second edition of Weld's account of his travels through Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Canada. The engraved plates include three views of Niagara Falls and city plans of Washington and Quebec. Howes W-235; Sabin 102541.
This lot is located in Chicago.