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The America of 1750; Peter Kalm's travels in North America; the English version of 1770, revised from the original Swedish and edited by Adolph B. Benson ... with a translation of new material from Kalm's diary notes ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Oe.1252
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779.
- Standardized Title:
- Resa til Norra America. English
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Natural history--United States.
- Natural history.
- Canada--Description and travel.
- Canada.
- Natural history--Canada.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes frontispiece, plates, maps (1 folded), facsimiles 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Wilson-Erickson, Inc., 1937.
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- Peter Kalm's travelogue on America, as first published.
- Supplementary diary.
- Extracts from the manuscript continuation of Kalm's travels in America.
- Description of Niagara Falls.
- Addenda to diary.
- History of the Delaware Swedes.
- Meteorological observations.
- Bibliography of Peter Kalm's writings on America.
- Index.
- Notes:
- Paged continuously.
- Includes reproductions of the title pages of the original English, Swedish and Dutch editions.
- "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 part on Norway and England has been omitted ... The hitherto untranslated portion ... has been done into English by Miss Edith M.L. Carlborg ... and the present editor. The remainder ... is based on Forster's translation."--Page xv
- "A bibliography of Peter Kalm's writings on America": v. 2, p. 770-776
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779. America of 1750.
- OCLC:
- 2516584
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