[America] Montule, É. de. A voyage to North America, and the West-Indies, in 1817

London, printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Company, 1821, (2),102 p., w. 3 engr. views, 1 fold. aquatint plate, 1 other fold. engr. plate and 4 wood-engr. views in the text, later hmor. w. giltlettered, ribbed spine. Occas. sl. foxed, spine restored. W. the engr. bookplate of C.L.F. Robinson (Newport). Howes M-740; Sabin 50230. First English edition (the orig. French edition was also published in 1821), of this work that points out the highlights of North America and the West Indies incl. Jamaica. (2) J. Fowler. Journal of a tour in the state of New York, in the year 1830; with remarks on agriculture in those parts most eligible for settlers: and return to England by the Western Islands, in consequence of shipwreck in the Robert Fulton. Printed in Liverpool by E. Smith and Co. for Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot in London, 1831, (2),V,(1),7-333 p., modern giltlettered hcalf. Only edition of this combination of an agricultural treatise and a travelogue, mentioning rural areas available and profitable for settlers such as Orange County, Utica, Niagara and Buffalo. After the shipwreck his party had to make way to the Western Islands, his travelogue contains descriptions of islands like Corvo, Flores and Horta.

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