Author: Herzog Bernhard von Saksen-Weimar-Eisenachs :
Title: Reize naar en door Noord-Amerika 1825 - 1826. In twee Deelen. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Met kaarten en Platen. Eerste Deel. (Tweede Deel) (complete in two volumes).
Description: .: 11. Dordrecht, bij Blusse en Van Braam, 1829, 2 vols. in-8°, xvi pp + 468 pp + 5 plates ( frontispiece, folding map of Plymouth Sound, map of Boston locality, map of New York, plate with ills. - e.g. a small bridge) ; iv pp + 514 pp + 2 plates (general folding map of the USA , folding illustration). Complete. Sewn, contemporary marbled wrappers, partially unsewn, a small previous owner's name in the upperhand right corner at some pages, notwithstandings these defects still a good/fine copy. First edition of the Dutch translation (out of the German edition) . The Duke, being a military man pays ample attention to USA military institutions ; e.g. West Point, Harpers Ferry , Fortress Monroe. Some chapters deal also with Canada where he visits the Niagara falls, Quebec, Montreal, Newark... .

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