Joseph Bouchette: The British Dominions in North America; or, a Topographical and statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, and Cape Breton. Including considerations on the land-granting and emigration. To which are annexed, statistical tables and tabels of distances

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Joseph Bouchette : The British Dominions in North America; or, a Topographical and statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, and Cape Breton. Including considerations on the land-granting and emigration. To which are annexed, statistical tables and tabels of distances

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, London, 1832

contemporary 1/4 cloth with paper boards, flat spine, paper label on spine., Original boards detached, worn, paper labels on spines, neat bookplates on pastedowns., 4to, pp. xxvi, (2), 498; pp. xi, (1), 296, f, 12 engraved plates, maps and plans in the first volume, 9 engraved plates maps and plans in the second volume of 31 total for the set (so lacking 10 plates). List of present plates: Plan of the town of Goderich, Plan and elevation of the Union bridges.., Plan of the town of Guelf, Harrowers distillery.., Isle aux Noix.., City of Quebec, Monument to Wolfe.., Brock's monument, Fort Chambly, Long's Farm on Lake Temiscouala.., Inscription on the new monument.., Falls..on the St. Maurice.

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Joseph Bouchette : The British Dominions in North America; or, a Topographical and statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, and Cape Breton. Including considerations on the land-granting and emigration. To which are annexed, statistical tables and tabels of distances is listed for sale on Bibliophile Bookbase by Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books.

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Joseph Bouchette : The British Dominions in North America; Or a Topographical and Statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, and Cape Breto. Including Considerations on Land-Granting and Emigration. To Which are Annexed, Statistical Tables and Tables of Distances, &c. / By Joseph Bouchette, Esq., Surveyor General of Lower Canada, Lieut.-Colonel C. M., Vice President of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, and Corresponding Member of the Society of Arts, London. / Embellishd with Views, Plans of Towns, Harbours, &c. / In Two Volumes

Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London, c. 1831.

Ex-libris 19th-century ½ morocco with matching cloth boards, flat spine in five compartments of gilt lined bands and gilt text on all, edges speckled blue. , A very good copy, generally plates and text are clean and crisp., 4to., P. Volume 1. (4), blank, frontis portrait, title, printer’s imprint, dedication iii-iv, preface v-xx, contents xxi-xxvi, list of plates, errata, 1-498, Table “No. 3”, blank, advertisements, blank, (4); Volume 2. (4), half-title, printer’s imprint, blank, frontis, title, blank, contents v-xi, plates, 1-296, (4)., Complete with 31 plates, 20 of which are plates depicting views of Canada in the late 1820s (including one double-page view of Montreal) and 11 of which are maps and plans (one folding) of various towns and cities, all engraved on stone after Bouchette. Also includes three unpaginated tables., Volume : Two Volumes.

Joseph Bouchette was the surveyor-general for Lower Canada from 1804-1841. Does not include the topographical dictionary., Sabin 6848

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Joseph Bouchette : The British Dominions in North America; Or a Topographical and Statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, and Cape Breto. Including Considerations on Land-Granting and Emigration. To Which are Annexed, Statistical Tables and Tables of Distances, &c. / By Joseph Bouchette, Esq., Surveyor General of Lower Canada, Lieut.-Colonel C. M., Vice President of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, and Corresponding Member of the Society of Arts, London. / Embellishd with Views, Plans of Towns, Harbours, &c. / In Two Volumes is listed for sale on Bibliophile Bookbase by Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books.

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