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Travels through the Interior Parts of America in a Series of Letters. London: William Lane, 1791. 2 volumes, 8º (290 x 142mm). Half-titles, folding engraved map, 6 plates after the author, all but one folding. (Map laid down, waterstained, and slightly damaged at lower margin, some repairs to plate versos, one plate with corner torn away, some spots and stains to text.) Original blue boards (boards heavily soiled and rebacked in parchment, later spine labels slightly rubbed). Provenance: Edmund Thomas Browne (contemporary signature on front endpaper, vol. I with added lines: ‘The dim and clang of Arms from pole to pole resound/And War, mad, wicked War, destruction spreads around’).
Second edition, following publication of the first in 1789. Anburey was a young officer on the staff of General Burgoyne, and his collection of 79 letters, illustrated with his own drawings, is a valuable record of the early years of the Revolutionary War, seen from the British perspective. The map shows the ground traversed by Burgoyne's army from Ticonderoga to Saratoga. Howes A-226; Lande 7; Sabin 1367.
Travels through the Interior Parts of America in a Series of Letters. London: William Lane, 1791. 2 volumes, 8º (290 x 142mm). Half-titles, folding engraved map, 6 plates after the author, all but one folding. (Map laid down, waterstained, and slightly damaged at lower margin, some repairs to plate versos, one plate with corner torn away, some spots and stains to text.) Original blue boards (boards heavily soiled and rebacked in parchment, later spine labels slightly rubbed). Provenance: Edmund Thomas Browne (contemporary signature on front endpaper, vol. I with added lines: ‘The dim and clang of Arms from pole to pole resound/And War, mad, wicked War, destruction spreads around’).
Second edition, following publication of the first in 1789. Anburey was a young officer on the staff of General Burgoyne, and his collection of 79 letters, illustrated with his own drawings, is a valuable record of the early years of the Revolutionary War, seen from the British perspective. The map shows the ground traversed by Burgoyne's army from Ticonderoga to Saratoga. Howes A-226; Lande 7; Sabin 1367.
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