Letters from Van Dieman's Land, written during four years imprisonment for political offences committed in Upper Canada

by Benjamin Wait

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Buffalo: A. G. Wilgus, 1843. First edition, 12mo, pp. vi, 7 -356; engraved frontispiece and a folding map; contemporary calf-backed cloth, spine quite worn, with small loss, joints cracked; folding portion of map lacking, but still essentially complete, moderate foxing. The author was imprisoned for activities leading up to the Rebellion of 1837-38. A summary of the causes of the Rebellion is given, but most of the work comprises letters written from the

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