A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North America / by William Douglass. Boston : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle, 1749-1753 i.e. 1758. 2 v. ; 20 cm.
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Volume 2 has imprint: Boston, New England : printed and sold by D. Fowle, 1753. Appended to vol. 2 are pages 417-440, with caption: In to render his work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757 i.e. the 6th edition 1758 being included.
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
America — Discovery and exploration.
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Our vanishing landscape / by Eric Sloane. New York : Ballantine Books, 1974, 1955. 107 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
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Architecture, American
Architecture, Colonial — United States
Architecture, Industrial — United States
United States — Description and travel
United States — Social life and customs.
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Narrative of American voyages and travels of Captain William Owen, R.N., and settlement of the Island of Campobello in the Bay of Fundy, 1766-1771 / edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. New York : New York Public Library, 1931. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations, facsims., maps (1 f
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Bound from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February-October 1931.
Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952.
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — To 1783.
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Travels through the interior parts of America / by Thomas Anburey ; with a foreword by William Harding Carter. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 2 v. : 1 folded map ; 23 cm.
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Limited edition of 575.
United States — Description and travel
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
Canada — Description and travel.
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Narrative and critical history of America / edited by Justin Winsor. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1884-1889. 8 v. : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsims. ; 28 cm.
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Most of the articles are followed by a critical essay on the sources of information, and notes in addition to the foot-notes.
Cartography — America
America — History
America — Bibliography
America — Maps, Early
America — Description and travel
America — Antiquities
United States — History
United States — History — Biblio
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A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America / from the French of Abbé Raynal. Edinburgh : Printed by C. MacFarquhar, 1776. 2 v. ; 16 cm.
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Pages 48-103 of Volume 1 and pages 9-135 of Volume 2 related to the description and history of the colonies in Canada.
United States — Description and travel
United States — Economic conditions
United States — History — Colonial period, ca.1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Description and travel — To
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Letters from North America, written during a tour in the United States and Canada / by Adam Hodgson. London : Printed for Hurst, Robinson, & Co. and A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 1824. 2 v. (xv, 405; iv, 459 pages) : illustrations, folded map, pla
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Errata slip tipped in to both vols. Error in paging: pages 331 misnumbered 831. Some copies of v. 2 also have a Postscript (pages [461]-473 dated Washington, 10th March, 1824. After many copies of the preceding work were sent off, I received an American newspaper, which contained the following documents ... I have thought it desirable to insert them in those copies which were still within my reach--pages [463]
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848
United States — Social life and customs — 1783-1865
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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My diary north and south / by William Howard Russell. Boston : T.O.H.P. Burnham ; 1863. xxii, 602 pages ; 20 cm.
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United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Personal narratives
Confederate States of America — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel.
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