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Peter Kalm's travels in North America : the English version of 1770 / revised from the original Swedish and edited by Adolph B. Benson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779.
- Standardized Title:
- Resa til Norra America. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779.
- Diaries.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- Natural history--United States.
- Natural history.
- Canada--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Canada.
- Natural history--Canada.
- Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779--Diaries.
- Kalm, Pehr.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (xviii, 797 pages) 19 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Travels in North America.
- America of 1750.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wilson-Erickson, 1937.
- Notes:
- At head of title: The America of 1750.
- "The present version is the first exclusively American edition ... in English...and the first one dealing with the part on United States and Canada to appear in this country. ... The hitherto untranslated portion of Kalm's work has been done into English by Miss Edith M. L. Carlborg... and the present editor."
- Includes reproductions of the title pages of the original English, Swedish and Dutch editions.
- "A bibliography of Peter Kalm's writings on America": pages 770-776.
- Includes index.
- OCLC:
- 62626331
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