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Title(s)
Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies : with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration / by Capt. J.E. Alexander, 42D Royal Highlanders, F.R.G.S. M.R.A.S. etc. ; author of Travels in Ava, Persia, etc.
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Published/Created
London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty, 1833.
London : Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street -
Physical Description
2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
E165 .A44 1833
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Etchings by William Heath; after James Edward Alexander.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 735
BEIN: Original boards, uncut.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary gilt-tooled and blind-stamped calf. Armorial bookplate: Sans Changer.
The author visited British Guiana, Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincents, Jamaica, and Cuba; thence up the Mississippi, through Canada and the eastern United States. -
Subject Terms
Canada -- Description and travel. | Cuba -- Description and travel. | Guyana -- Description and travel. | United States -- Description and travel. | West Indies, British -- Description and travel.
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Form/Genre
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Engravings -- 1833. | Etchings -- 1833. | Maps.
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