A TOUR FROM THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, TO DETROIT, IN THE MICHIGAN TERRITORY....
Darby, William:
New York. 1819. 228,[71]pp. plus three folding maps (including frontispiece map), all partially colored. Half antique calf and marbled boards, leather label, raised bands. Some moderate scattered foxing, somewhat tanned. A few pencil marginalia. Repaired hole in lower blank margin of one map. Overall a very good copy, in a tasteful binding. Darby was an expert surveyor and geographer. He gives an accurate and detailed description of the path he travelled across New York, southern Ontario, Ohio, and Michigan, and offers one of the first systematic American views of Michigan Territory. Howes notes that only one map is found in some copies. All three maps are present herein, showing the straits of Niagara, the environs of Detroit, and the Northeast as far west as Detroit, respectively. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 55. HOWES D66, "aa." SABIN 18533. STREETER SALE 841. TPL 1136.
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