Fidler rev isaac (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: GOOD. First thus. A reprint of this work originally published in London in 1833. The author's had a rather negative but narrow view of American society based on his travels in and around New Jersey, New York, and New England, and a positive experience in Canada. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. 433 pp. Ex-library with the usual markings and overall tight and clean in gold cloth with burgundy lettering.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. viii, [1], 14-248, 8 p. 20 cm. Black cloth. Corners worn, boards warped, spine ends chipped and torn. Bookplate on front pastedown, ink stamps and signatures on front endpapers. Dampstains and foxing. Ink signature p. 163. A pompous Englishman explores the U.S. and Canada in 1832 and comments on the harshness of the New York climate, American prejudices, the wonders of Niagara, and the roaming habits of Canadian cattle. But see The North American Review No. LXXXI, October 1833, pp. 273-314 for an amusing review of this book by a clever Bostonian, who pokes holes in many of Fidler's arguments.…

Hardcover. 12mo. pp. viii, [13]-247 +8(ads). original cloth (joints, spine ends & spine label chipped). First American Edition. "Sweeping disparagement of a republic whose citizens were neither gentlemen nor scholars." (Howes) Fidler fled to Canada when he found the United States not to his liking and obtained a comfortable position in the affluent village of Thornhill. Fidler offers his views on emigration (he advocates the choice of Canada over the United States), religion (the Anglican minister was extremely critical of Methodism), the cholera, &c. TPL 1710, Lande 222, Howes F-110 (all calling for mispaged 247 (248), while ours is properly numbered). cfGagnon I 1362 (London edn.). Sabin 24261. Story p. 609.…