Author: Michaux, Francois A.
Title: Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains, in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessea, and Back to Charleston by the Upper Carolines; Comprising the Most Interesting Details on the Present State of Agriculture, and the Natural Produce of Those Countries: Together with Particulars Relative to the Commerce That Exists between the Above-Mentioned States, and Those Situated East of the Mountains and Low Louisiana, Undertaken, in the Year 1802, Under the Auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, Minister of the Interior
Description: London, B. Crosby and Co. Stationers' Court; and J.F. Hughes, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, 1805. Second English Edition. Leather-bound. 2nd English edition. Small 8vo, later half-bound brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, lacking half title. Small library sticker to bottom of leather spine. Hinges reinforced with dark green library tape. Diagonal chip (1" x 2 1/2") chip missing from upper right corner of title page. Library perforation stamp and rubber stamps (Univ of Texas, 20 June 1901, and "Bindery") but not obscuring any text, as well as UT bookplate to front pastedown. Occasional light bracketing in pencil. 294pp. Text very clean with light browning. Exlib. Old U. Texas bookplate. Paper spine label. Covers tight. Issued without the map that was present in the 1st English edition (also 1805). Charming, fascinating early travel account, slightly abridged from the French (1804). Howes M-579. Sabin 48705. Very clean, tight and affordable copy. Of particular note is a paragraph (p. 291) and an outraged reader's penciled and bracketed comment in the margin: The enraging bit of text reads: "..Throughthe whole of the low country the agricultural labours are peformed by negro slaves, and the major part of the planters employ them to drag the plough; they conceive the land is better cultivated, and calculate besides, that in the course of a year a horse, for food and looking after, costs ten times more than a negro, the annual expense of which does not exceed fifteen dollars..". The reader's penciled comment reads: "An abominable lie, too absurd to be credited". Howes M-579. Sabin 48705. Good Plus .
Keywords: Western Americana, Slavery, Ohio History, Kentucky History,
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Title: Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains, in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessea, and Back to Charleston by the Upper Carolines; Comprising the Most Interesting Details on the Present State of Agriculture, and the Natural Produce of Those Countries: Together with Particulars Relative to the Commerce That Exists between the Above-Mentioned States, and Those Situated East of the Mountains and Low Louisiana, Undertaken, in the Year 1802, Under the Auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, Minister of the Interior
Description: London, B. Crosby and Co. Stationers' Court; and J.F. Hughes, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, 1805. Second English Edition. Leather-bound. 2nd English edition. Small 8vo, later half-bound brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, lacking half title. Small library sticker to bottom of leather spine. Hinges reinforced with dark green library tape. Diagonal chip (1" x 2 1/2") chip missing from upper right corner of title page. Library perforation stamp and rubber stamps (Univ of Texas, 20 June 1901, and "Bindery") but not obscuring any text, as well as UT bookplate to front pastedown. Occasional light bracketing in pencil. 294pp. Text very clean with light browning. Exlib. Old U. Texas bookplate. Paper spine label. Covers tight. Issued without the map that was present in the 1st English edition (also 1805). Charming, fascinating early travel account, slightly abridged from the French (1804). Howes M-579. Sabin 48705. Very clean, tight and affordable copy. Of particular note is a paragraph (p. 291) and an outraged reader's penciled and bracketed comment in the margin: The enraging bit of text reads: "..Throughthe whole of the low country the agricultural labours are peformed by negro slaves, and the major part of the planters employ them to drag the plough; they conceive the land is better cultivated, and calculate besides, that in the course of a year a horse, for food and looking after, costs ten times more than a negro, the annual expense of which does not exceed fifteen dollars..". The reader's penciled comment reads: "An abominable lie, too absurd to be credited". Howes M-579. Sabin 48705. Good Plus .
Keywords: Western Americana, Slavery, Ohio History, Kentucky History,
Price: US$ 475.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 82593
- Book number: 82593
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