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Travels into North America
Peter Kalm, 1770-1771
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Travels into North America
Peter Kalm, 1770-1771
KALM, Peter (1717-1779). Travels into North America; containing its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general... Translated by John Reinhold FORSTER (1729-1798). Warrington and [London, vols. 2-3], 1770-71.
First English edition, including the scarce advertisement leaf, and first issue, with the Warrington imprint. Peter Kalm was a Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus who travelled in America between 1748 and 1751. One aim of his travels was to introduce new useful plants from that temperate region, and more especially to find strains of Morus rubra (red mulberry) fit for introduction into Sweden. Kalm travelled in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Canada and gives a very important contemporary account of the Swedish settlements in New Jersey. He was a close friend of John Bartram and travelled with him into New York state. The first edition was published in Stockholm in 1753-61. Attesting to its importance, by 1772 there were also German, Dutch, and a second English edition. "One of the most important and reliable eighteenth-century accounts of American natural history, social organization and political situation" (Streeter). Howes K-5 (“b”); Lande 482; Reese Struggle 80; Sabin 36989; Stafleu & Cowan 3493; Streeter sale 823.
Three volumes, octavo (203 x 125mm). Engraved folding map (split at one of the folds), six engraved plates, one of which is hand-colored (corner dampstain, gathering detached in vol. 2, some spotting at ends and near plates, top corner clipped on vol. 1 title and following two leaves). Advertisement leaf for the map at end of vol. 1. Subscriber’s list in vol. 3. Modern quarter morocco. Provenance: scattered early marginalia, manuscript indexing on verso of ad leaf – Russell Institution (London club, dissolved c.1890; inkstamps on titles).
Peter Kalm, 1770-1771
KALM, Peter (1717-1779). Travels into North America; containing its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general... Translated by John Reinhold FORSTER (1729-1798). Warrington and [London, vols. 2-3], 1770-71.
First English edition, including the scarce advertisement leaf, and first issue, with the Warrington imprint. Peter Kalm was a Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus who travelled in America between 1748 and 1751. One aim of his travels was to introduce new useful plants from that temperate region, and more especially to find strains of Morus rubra (red mulberry) fit for introduction into Sweden. Kalm travelled in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Canada and gives a very important contemporary account of the Swedish settlements in New Jersey. He was a close friend of John Bartram and travelled with him into New York state. The first edition was published in Stockholm in 1753-61. Attesting to its importance, by 1772 there were also German, Dutch, and a second English edition. "One of the most important and reliable eighteenth-century accounts of American natural history, social organization and political situation" (Streeter). Howes K-5 (“b”); Lande 482; Reese Struggle 80; Sabin 36989; Stafleu & Cowan 3493; Streeter sale 823.
Three volumes, octavo (203 x 125mm). Engraved folding map (split at one of the folds), six engraved plates, one of which is hand-colored (corner dampstain, gathering detached in vol. 2, some spotting at ends and near plates, top corner clipped on vol. 1 title and following two leaves). Advertisement leaf for the map at end of vol. 1. Subscriber’s list in vol. 3. Modern quarter morocco. Provenance: scattered early marginalia, manuscript indexing on verso of ad leaf – Russell Institution (London club, dissolved c.1890; inkstamps on titles).
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