The Shoe And Canoe Or Pictures Of Travel In The Canadas Illustrative Of Their Scenery And Of

by John Jeremiah Bigsby

$2,850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Publisher's stamped blue cloth, spines lettered gilt First edition of one of the classic narratives of travel in British North America, richly illustrated from the author’s own sketches. A very good copy in original publisher's cloth. An engaging narrative of British North America by John Jeremiah Bigsby, an English army surgeon and geologist whose Canadian service from 1818 to 1826 provided the basis for these volumes. Posted initially to Lower Canada,

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