Library Record
Metadata
Title |
A northern tour: being a guide to Saratoga, Lake George, Niagara, Canada, Boston, &c. &c. through the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, and Connecticut; |
Title added entry |
embracing an account of the canals, colleges, public institutions, natural curiosities, and interesting objects therein. |
Author |
[Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860] |
Published Date |
1825 |
Object Name |
Guidebook |
Control Number |
2023.060.0285 |
Call Number |
04890 |
Place of Publication |
Philadelphia : |
Publisher |
H.C. Carey & I. Lea; Lydia R. Bailey, printer, |
Physical Description |
[iv] 279, [16] pages ; 15 cm. Cardboard boards with red leather spine and corners. Spine stamped in gold: Northern tour. |
Summary |
Advertisement, pgs. v and iv.: "It is the object of this little volume, which is here presented to the traveller, to afford what has hitherto been wanting, in an excursion through the northern part of the Union - a work to which he may conveniently refer for information, on those subjects that will naturally attract his attention, during a tour...." |
Search Terms |
New York (State)--Guidebooks. North America--Guidebooks. Northeastern states--Description and travel. |
Notes |
Adirondack Bibliography 1176. ADKX copy lacking map. Advertisements appended: Valuable works lately published by H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia (pgs. 1-16); and Valuable law books published by H.C. Carey & I. Lea ... Manuscript note on title page: [Henry D. Gilpin] Manuscript note on flyleaf: From Benj. H. Rand, Phila. 1828. Stamped on flyleaf: Franklin T. Ferguson. Mary E. Ferguson. Manuscript note on flyleaf: Frank T. Ferguson, Sharon, Mass., October 24, 1863. Repaired by Anastasia Osolin, bookbinder, with funding provided by the Lake Placid Education Foundation, January 2024. |
Collection |
Adirondack Experience Library |