American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
HALL, Basil. Forty Etchings, from Sketches Made with the Camera Lucida in North America. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829.

4to (324 x 246 mm). Hand-colored folding map, 40 etched plates on 20 sheets. (Some spotting.) Original printed boards (neatly rebacked, some browning and staining, some staining from old adhesive to flyleaves).

FIRST EDITION. Hall traveled from Boston to Charleston and Savannah, on to Louisiana, up the Mississippi to St. Louis, then east through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to the Erie Canal through New York to Montreal. The etched plates, made with the camera lucida during his travels, show views of Buffalo, Rochester, Columbus, and New Orleans, and depict Niagara Falls, the Erie Canal, riverboats and a stage coach. Howes H-46.

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Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
HALL, Basil. Forty Etchings, from Sketches Made with the Camera Lucida in North America. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829.

Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

American Travel, Exploration & Expansion HALL, Basil. Forty Etchings, from Sketches Made with the Camera Lucida in North America. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829.

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American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
HALL, Basil. Forty Etchings, from Sketches Made with the Camera Lucida in North America. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829.