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Paperback / softback. New. Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828, providing a fascinating description of contemporary social conditions and political tensions in North America.

Paperback / softback. New. Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828, providing a fascinating description of contemporary social conditions and political tensions in North America.

Paperback / softback. New. Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828, providing a fascinating description of contemporary social conditions and political tensions in North America.

Paperback / softback. New. Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828, providing a fascinating description of contemporary social conditions and political tensions in North America.

Paperback / softback. New. Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828, providing a fascinating description of contemporary social conditions and political tensions in North America.

Edinburgh: Cadell and Co, 1830. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. vi, 432pp. Volume two only. Leather boards stamped in gilt with marbled endpapers. Bookplate on the front pastedown, the top half of the spine absent and what's left is partially detached, bumping to the spine ends and corners, and rubbing to the boards, still very good with the text clean and bright. The bookplate is that of James Backwell Praed, Esq. who served as a member of the UK Parliament from 1835 until his death in 1837.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 2 volumes: iv, 322 pages; iv, 9-339 pages. Publisher's original paper covered boards. Faded, chipped titles on the paper spines. Paper spines edge worn, chipped and flaking off. Light edge wear to boards. Covers were taped to the text blocks on the joints and are loose, near detached. Untrimmed text edges. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to the contents. Old pencil signature of previous owner on right front flyleaf. Fair Howes B 47; Clark III 48.

Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Good Minus. Matching two volume set: Octavo, 8.2 in. x 4.7 in., Volume I: pp. 322; Volume II: pp. 339. Contemporary publishers blue boards rebacked with gray-tan paper spine with no title. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Soiling to well-worn boards. Edges showing. Light, speckled foxing to pages, but text clearly legible. Laid in (both volumes): top two inches of original paper spine label attached to a piece of paper. Volume I: Front free endpaper partially detached and top 1/2 in. has been cut off. Previous owner's name in pencil to front flyleaf. Volume II: Front free endpaper detached but present. Open tear (2 in. x 3 in. to corner of front flyleaf. Tidelines front endpapers and last six leaves plus rear endpapers. Basil Hall (born Dec. 31, 1788, Dunglass, Haddingtonshire, Scot.—died Sept. 11, 1844, Gosport, Hampshire, Eng.) British naval officer and traveler remembered for noteworthy accounts of his visits to the… Read More

Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 3 volume set. REBOUND. Each volume contains original pages, new covers. Age toning throughout with margins discolored to preliminary and end pages. Vol. 1 - 421 pages, fold out map tipped in to front with tape & small tears to edges; Vol. 2 - 432 pages; and Vol. 3 - 436 pages with fold out table tipped in to rear. Previous owner's book plate on front end paper on each volume. Record # 2233139

Cadell and Co. : Edinburgh. Very Good+. 1829. Hardcover. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; Complete 3 volume set, spine have been restored with suede over the original fabric-mesh-covered-leather boards. Hand color map is neatly folded in as published, pages unmarked with little to no toning or foxing. A nice, clean tight and attractive book. .

Printed for Cadell & Co. / Simpkin and Marshall, 1829. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Edinburgh, 1829; 3 VOLUMES, COMPLETE; marbled paper covered boards; leather spine and corner wear; corners and edges scuffed; corners bumped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; marbled end papers; Previous owner's name on front paste-downs; text block edges marbled; occasional notations in margins; individually paginated; From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely; Additional shipping charges may be required due to the size and weight of book.

Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1830. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. 3 vols.: xiv, 421; vi, 432; vii, 436, 9 p. 20 cm. Fold-out table at rear of vol. III. Half leather with marbled boards. Matching endpapers and text block edges. Spine labels missing, general wear to extremities, especially corners. Bookseller's and former owner's labels on front pages. Fold-out map missing but replaced by photocopy. First published in 1829, Hall's Travels caused some offence to Americans due to his criticisms of American society. Specifically, Hall witnesses a slave auction and is greatly disturbed by the experience (pp. 34-40). He is not entirely pro-abolitionist, however, and his generally positive descriptions of southern plantations may strike modern readers as naive. Appendix at rear of Vol. III explains how to operate a camera lucida, an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. Rear table shows square mileage of each state of the union.

Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1830. Third Edition. With half-title and large folding map in Volume I (lacking the folding table in Volume III). Modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine, raised bands, colored edges; text is slightly toned with occasional spotting typically to the first and last few leaves of each volume, map torn along one of the folds, otherwise a good copy.

Edinburgh: and London: Cadell and Co + Simpkin and Marshall, 1829. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 3 Vols complete, VG, 1st ed, 1 map. In uniform red half morocco with marbled boards, some blind tooling, corners & edges lightly rubbed. Spines, relaid, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, [2], [1], (ii-iv), [1], (ii) only, [1], 2-421 pp, 1 map (folding & coloured with repaired tear). Vol 2, [2], [1], (ii) only, [1], 2-432 pp. Vol 3, [3], (vi-vii), [1], [1], 2-436 pp, 1 chart (folding), 1 illustration (River Mississippi). All volumes have a small bookplate to fpds (McClure, Inverness), only very occasional light browning or foxing, text block edges speckled in red, all lack half titles. All printed by Ballantyne & Company, Pauls Work, Canongate, Edinburgh. (Sabin 562) (is the Bookplate of McClure. Inverness. that of Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure 1807-1873 of Arctic fame?). Hall, naval officer and author, who after retiring from the navy, spent… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. Two volumes, each bound in contemporary three quarter blue paper over cloth. Spines shorn, hinges weak, rear cover of volume 1 detached but present. vi, [5]-322; iv, [9]-339, [1 blank] pp. Rear free endpaper of volume 2 torn. Light scattered foxing. Except as noted, Very Good. A captain in the Royal Navy, Hall traveled to North America in 1828. He visited Quebec, Pennsylvania, New York, the New England states, New Orleans, the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. In his southern route, Hall describes visits to various plantations, Creek Indian ceremonies, slavery, other customs. Hall's snooty attitude toward things American annoyed his former colonials. Clark acknowledges that Hall "was not pleased with the South...[H]e found difficulty in adjusting himself to the democratic manners and rude accommodations that he found in the United States, both North and South. Nevertheless, he was a clear and forceful writer, and his work contains many excellent descriptions… Read More

Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. Good +. 8vo, Volume I: 421pp, color folding map; Volume II: 432pp; Volume III: 436pp, folding chart at back cover. Volumes have marbled boards, with half red leather. Stamped decorative gilt spines with gilt raised bands and gilt titles on black ground reads "Hall's North America". Spines are rubbed; Vol. I has an amateur leather patch at top left edge of spine, which partially obscures the topmost decorative raised band. the boards are lightly rubbed, but maintain their color. Internally, light scattered fox spotting. Previous owner, Henry Thorold, bookplate inside each front cover. The folding map in Vol. I has only one small split approximately one inch long at the fold; the folding chart has no splits whatsoever, just some light fox spotting. Volume I includes Hall's (a retired captain of the Royal Navy) impressions of New York City, the Hudson River, Sing Sing prison and West Point Academy. Volume III, Chapter XII includes a detailed account of a Native… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell and Co., 1829.. Three volumes. iv,ii,421; [4],ii,432; vii,[1],436pp., plus folding colored map and folding table. Half titles. 12mo. Contemporary gilt calf, expertly rebacked to style, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good. First edition. Captain Hall, a Scottish naval officer, travelled throughout much of the Northeast and the Midwest, including the Great Lakes region. His southern route brought him through Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama. He also travelled south via the Mississippi through Louisiana, and north to Quebec; his route is traced on the map. "His work contains many excellent descriptions of places and conditions that came under his observation" (Clark), including Creek ceremonies, and navigating the Mississippi. The handsome colored map shows the United States as far west as Arkansas Territory and Missouri. "Hall's three-volume Travels in North America...was one of the… Read More

Edinburgh: Cadell and Co. and Simpkine and Marshall, 1829. First Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in very good+ condition elaborately bound in full brown leather (calf) diced on the boards with a gilt border, three raised bands on the spines with gilt tooling and two black leather title blocks with gilt text. On volumes I and III the black leather title blocks are chipped with only minor losses to the gilt text. The edges of the text blocks are marbled. Each is a 7mo measuring 7 1/4" by 4 1/2" with an early prior owner's book plate attached to the front paste downs of each volume. Each volume also has the remains of silk placement ribbons sewn-in at the heads of the spines. Volume I contains 421 pages and is illustrated with hand colored fold-out map at the front of the book. The map is in excellent condition with only a small 1/3" closed tear at its margin. Volume II contains 432 pages; and, volume III contains 436 pages followed by a fold-out… Read More

1829. Edinburgh, Cadell and Co., 1829. Small 8vo. Uncut in 3 orig. boards with orig. printed paper-titlelabels on spines. Spine ends lightly chipped. A good copy in its original state and binding. IV,II,421;(1),II,432;VII,436 pp. + Advertisements (4) pp. and large folded engraved and handcoloured map, 1 folded table. Some scattered foxing. With all 3 htitles. First edition. - Sabin 29725.

Edinburgh / London: Printed for Cadell & Co. / Simpkin and Marshall, 1829. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in full dark blue calf with spines and board edges stamped and decorated in gilt. Gilt stamped spine labels are rubbed and chipped, more than half gilt lost but impressions still legible. Boards are rubbed at the heads, heels, extremities, and bottom edges. Volume one has a separated front inner hinge. Volume two front inner hinge has started but is holding. Marbled endpapers. Fold-out map in color bound in to volume one. Three tables on one fold-out sheet bound in to volume three