Retrospect of western travel / by Harriet Martineau ... ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876, author.

Contributor:

Lohman, Charles, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.

Manners and customs.

Travel.

Genre:

Travel literature.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Carrington, Mabel (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Western travel

Place of Publication:

New-York : Charles Lohman, 1838.

Notes:

Intending to "supply to the English what the Americans do not want--a picture of the aspect of the country, and of its men and manners. There seems no reason why such a picture should not be appended to an inquiry into the theory and practice of their society."--Preface, volume 1, page [5].

Running title, on versos: Western travel.

Pagination: volume 1: [7], 18-202 pages ; volume 2: [5], 16-178 pages.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown of each volume.

Schimmel Collection copy: each volume has autograph of Mabel Carrington (that in volume 1 largely effaced and overwritten by bookseller's note) in pencil on front free endpaper and her annotations in text; volume 1 has partially illegible dated 19th-century provenance inscription ("Augustus F. Gattes[...] Bought at Gowans NY Long Room 169 Broadway July 15th 1838 22 1/2/ per vol-") on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 51516

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 78

OCLC:

191246366