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The Flowers of modern travels; : being elegant, entertaining, and instructive extracts / selected from the works of the most celebrated travellers; by the Rev. John Adams, A.M. ; [Two lines of quotations] ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 36677. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 36677.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1816.
- Anthologies.
- Travel literature.
- Subscription publications.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Published for the subscribers. John H. Belcher, agent., 1816.
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "Mr. Adams hath judiciously extracted the most proper passages for a miscellany of this kind, which to young readers, who are fond of perusing books of authentic travels, connot [sic] fail of furnishing the most profitable and innocent amusement"-- Advertisement, v. 1, p. [4], from the Monthly review, vol. LXXX, p. 83.
- "To the present edition an additional volume is added, containing entertaining and instructive extracts ... "--v. 1, p. [4].
- Vol. 1: [9], 14-336 p. ; v. 2: [5], 8-341, [1] p. Last page of v. 2 blank.
- Error in paging: v. 2, p. 85 misnumbered 87.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 36677).
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