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Title

New travels in the United States of America : performed in 1788 : containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius, and present state of the people ard [sic] government of that country ... / by J.P. Brissot de Warville ; translated from the French.

Author

Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.

Publication

London : Printed for J.S. Jordan, no. 166, Fleet-Street, MDCCXCII [1792]

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Additional Authors

• Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812.
• Jordan, J. S. (Jeremiah Samuel)

Description

[4], xliii, [1], [45]-483, [5] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; 22 cm (8vo)

Subject

• United States > Description and travel > Early works to 1800

Note

• "... their agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and finances--quality and price of lands, and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and the Missisippe [sic]--political and moral character of the Quakers, and a vindication of that excellent sect, from the misrepresentations of other travellers--state of the blacks--progress of the laws for their emancipation, and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent--accurate accounts of the climate, longevity--comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c. &c."
• Abridged translation, by Joel Barlow, of: Nouveau voyage dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale, fait en 1788. Paris, 1791, v. 1-2. Cf. New travels in the United States of America 1788, edited by D. Echeverria. Cambridge, Mass. 1964. p. xxvi-xxvii.
• "This volume comprises M. de Warville's two first volumes. His third, on the commerce of America, has been before published in English"--P. [487].
• Another 1792 ed. with same imprint lacks statement of contents on t.p. Cf. ESTC T117162.
• Signatures: [a]² b⁴ B-2H⁸.
• Table on folded leaf.
• Errata: p. [488].

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC
• Sabin
• Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the Old Frontier
• Clark, T.D. Old South

Binding (note)

• Modern brown buckram; black leather spine label.

Call Number

*KF 1792 09-125

LCCN

44048118

OCLC

6820033

Author

Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.

Title

New travels in the United States of America : performed in 1788 : containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius, and present state of the people ard [sic] government of that country ... / by J.P. Brissot de Warville ; translated from the French.

Imprint

London : Printed for J.S. Jordan, no. 166, Fleet-Street, MDCCXCII [1792]

Indexed In:

ESTC N56260

Sabin 8025

Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the Old Frontier, 890

Clark, T.D. Old South, II, no. 80 (1)

Binding

Modern brown buckram; black leather spine label. NN

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Added Author

Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812.

Jordan, J. S. (Jeremiah Samuel) Printer

Research Call Number

*KF 1792 09-125