
The Northern Traveller: (Combined with the Northern Tour.) Containing the Routes to Niagara, Quebec, and the Springs. With the Tour of New-England, and the Route to the Coal Mines of Pennsylvana . . . Third Editions, Revised and Extended.
New-York: Published by G. & C. Carvill, 1828. Third edition. 12mo, contemporary black half morocco, gilt spine, 403 pages. 19 maps (including one double-leaf map) and 11 plates. Rubbed, front hinge tender; browned and foxed; a good, sound copy. Item #13962
A detailed guide of a nation in transition, this revised and expanded guide includes a moderately lengthy account of the Mauch Chunk railroad (the second in the nation), which had opened in mid-1827, as well as brief accounts of factories and manufacturing in Ware Factory Village, Lowell and Chelmsford. Cf. Howes D607, noting the 1825 first edition (which had 16 maps and four plates).
Price: $125.00
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