2 vols. xi, [5], 514; v, [5]-480 pp. This copy bound without the Appendix by Lieut. Campbell Hardy (Pp. 481-517). Illustrated with 12 wood engravings by the author and Oscar Bessau. (8vo), original gilt-lettered red cloth with gilt-stamped moose on front covers. First American Edition (but with London publisher's imprint at foot of spine).
Lanman's scarce work, first published in 1854 London, this being the first American edition which contains considerably more information. Lanman traveled around the wilds of the eastern United States, and who once wrote about this work as "a kind of cyclopedia of American scenery and personal adventure and of traveling incidents, calculated to exhibit the manners and customs of our people, and interest the lovers of natural history and the various arts of sporting." Includes a trip to the start of the Mississippi; a visit of the Canadian Saguenay river; a trip through western Maryland and Virginia; writings in the Allegheny mountains; sources of the Potomac; a tour to the River Restigouche and more. "Lanman was a professional writer of some merit. He was interested in angling, not hunting…" (and a fine artist) - Howes L-87; Phillips p. 217; Clark III: 341; Bruns L 31.
Condition:
Spine ends frayed, joints splitting, light soiling to cloth; some underlining and penciled notations; very good.