THINGS AS THEY ARE: OR, NOTES OF A TRAVELLER THROUGH SOME OF THE MIDDLE AND NORTHERN STATES. New-York: Harper & Brothers -- 82 Cliff-Street, 1834. 19.5x11.5 cm (12mo), pp. [i-ii: frontispiece] [iii-v] vi-viii [9] 10-252, flyleaves at front and rear, frontispiece (included in the pagination) and four inserted plates, publisher's salmon cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. First edition. Perceptive travel sketches by Theodore Dwight, Jr. (1796-1866), a prominent American educator and linguist. Includes chapters on the White Hills that contains a description of Dwight's ascent Mt Washington (pp. 149-159), the Hudson River Valley and the Catskills (pp. 192-199), and a Northern Tour from Saratoga Springs to Montreal by way of Lake George, Crown Point and Lake Champlain (pp. 236-242). The inserted plates are "One of the White Hills Stripped of Forest and Soil by the Storm of 1826," "Catskill Mountains, from Saugerties," "Lake George" and "Varennes, on the St. Lawrence." This edition is not recorded by Sabin who includes the second edition, SUMMER TOURS, OR NOTES OF A TRAVELLER THROUGH SOME OF THE MIDDLE AND NORTHERN STATES (1847). Howes D 609. This edition not in Sabin. Not in Bent or Plum. Cloth sunned, light wear to spine panel, spine label rubbed and tanned, abrasions on the front panel where a large label or bookplate was removed, mild foxing to rear paste-down, text block clean and tight. Superior condition for this book. (#177310).
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