Acadia; or, a Month with the Blue Noses.
New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1859. First edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.25 inches), original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 329, [1] pages. Double frontispiece: two lithographic portraits by Sarony inserted before the title page. Front free endpaper excised; spine sunned, some spotting to the boards; some occasional light internal spotting; a good to very good copy. Item #20450
A popular account of travel among the Acadians of the Maritimes in eastern Canada; includes local color, a smattering of dialect, accounts of lobstering, going down a coal mine, etc. BAL 4001, second state; Sabin 17321.
Price: $100.00
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