Travels into North America / by Peter Kalm ; translated into English by John Reinhold Forster ; introduction by Ralph M. Sargent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779.

Contributor:

Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798, Translator.

Sargent, Ralph M. (Ralph Millard), 1904- Author of introduction, etc.

Gemming, Klaus., Book designer.

Imprint Society (Barre, Mass.), Publisher.

Connecticut Printers., Printer.

Meriden Gravure Company., Printer.

Sendor Bindery., Binder.

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Resa til Norra America. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

United States.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Natural history--United States.

Natural history.

Canada--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Canada.

Natural history--Canada.

Genre:

Travel literature.

Limitation statements (Printing)

Laid papers (Paper)

Slipcases (Binding).

Physical Description:

xxiv, 514 pages : illustrations (some color, folded), folded map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Barre, Mass. : Imprint Society, 1972.

Notes:

Translation of En resa til Norra America.

Includes index.

"Printed by Connecticut Printers of Hartford, Connecticut, in an edition of 1950 copies. Klaus Gemming of New Haven, Connecticut, designed the book using Janson and Caslon typefaces. The paper is Imprint Society Text. The illustrations have been taken from the originals at Yale University and The American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and have been printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. The binding is by Sendor Bindery of New York"--colophon.

In original slipcase.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Lewis M. Robbins book fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779. Resa til Norra America. English. Travels into North America.

ISBN:

0876360258

9780876360255

OCLC:

717795