Travels Through the Canadas Containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on Some of the Rivers and Lakes; With an Account of the Productions, Commerce, and Inhabitants of Those Provinces. To Which Is Subjoined a Comparative View of the Manners and Customs of Several of the Indian Nations of North and South America.

London: Richard Phillips, 1807. Undetermined. near fine. 1st Edition. xii,602,(2). pp.pp. Quarto (29.5 X 23.7 cm.) Bound in Modern full morocco. Spine ruled in 6 compartments. Hand sewn head caps. Gilt inner dentelles. Matching marbled green endpapers. All edged untrimmed. Folding hand coloured panorama frontispiece. 26 plates all delicately handcoloured (6 folding). It is our opinion that this is contemporary colouring. Folding handcoloured map at the rear. Very slight offsetting from the plates otherwise a very clean copy. Dionne II 934. Field 687 (24 plates). Gagnon I 1657. Hill pp. 142-43. Lande 433. Morgan p. 184. Pilling, Algonquian, p. 229. Prideaux pp. 254-55. Sabin 31489 (29 plates). Streeter VI 3658. TPL 805. A spectacular copy of the rarest issue of the book complete with all of the plates being finely hand coloured! the normal issue has the plates printed in sepia. in addition this copy is very tall as all of the edges have been kept untrimmed. This copy is very clean, far more so than normal as the sepia issue seemed to become quite a bit more browned. Heriot travelled a good deal through Canada from 1800 to 1816 as deputy postmaster general of British North America. He recorded his travels in illustration as well as text, as represented by the fine plates in the present work. Heriot was considered one of the finest watercolorists of his day. The plates depict the Azores and include three views of Quebec; one each of St. Paul's Bay, Jeune Lorete, the Ruins of Chateau Richer, River Etchemin, and Lake St. Charles; two views each of Niagara Falls, the St. Lawrence, the Fall of Montmorenci, and the Fall of la Puce; one each of Fort Niagara, Montreal, Grand Chaudiere on the Outaouais River, and the Bridge on the Jacques Cartier; and illustrations of Indian costume, an Indian encampment, and two of French Canadian dancing. The text offers a fine contemporary account of the Loyalist settlements in Canada and contains important material on the cod fisheries, fur trade, and native Indians, with a printing of Father Rasle's vocabulary of the Algonquian language. Very very scarce in this condition and fully coloured. 1807