Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803-1885, Transatlantic sketches , 1833
- Title(s):
Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies : with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration / by Capt. J.E. Alexander, 42D Royal Highlanders, F.R.G.S. M.R.A.S. etc. ; author of Travels in Ava, Persia, etc.
- Published/Created:
- London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty, 1833.
London : Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street - Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsE165 .A44 1833Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1519520
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Etchings by William Heath; after James Edward Alexander.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 735
BEIN: Original boards, uncut.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary gilt-tooled and blind-stamped calf. Armorial bookplate: Sans Changer.
The author visited British Guiana, Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincents, Jamaica, and Cuba; thence up the Mississippi, through Canada and the eastern United States. - Subject Terms:
- Canada -- Description and travel.Cuba -- Description and travel.Guyana -- Description and travel.United States -- Description and travel.West Indies, British -- Description and travel.
- Form/Genre:
- Engravings -- 1833.
Etchings -- 1833.
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