PICKEN, Andrew

The Canadas, as they at present commend themselves to the Enterprize [sic] of Emigrants, Colonists and Capitalists ... Compiled and condensed from Original Documents furnished by John Galt ...

London, Effingham Wilson, 1832.

Duodecimo, vii, 349, [iii], lxxxviii, 36 (publisher's catalogue) pages plus a large folding hand-coloured map.

Original cloth with the paper title-label on the spine; covers a little marked and bumped, and lightly worn at the extremities; spine sunned, with two tiny tears to the head; scattered light foxing; mild offsetting to the map, which also has an old tape repair to the blank verso of the bound-in panel (the tape now discoloured, staining that panel of the map a little); a very good copy, uncut and occasionally unopened.

An important and early emigrants' guide.

Item #97453

Price (AUD): $750.00
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