The Canadas in 1841.
London: Henry Colburn, 1841. Hardcover. 12mo. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #004433
In Two Volumes. Red cloth with morocco spine rebacked. xii, [2] 348pp; viii, 338pp, [8]ads. Illustrated. Frontispiece and title vignette in each volume, and one folding map of the authors route through Upper and Lower Canada (volume one). Roughly trimmed edges with light foxing, chipping to lower margin in second volume (pp. 53-56, text unaffected). Light wear to edges and spine, chipping to spine of second volume but o/w a very good set overall. Sir Richard Bonnycastle [1791-1847] was a British Army Officer and Lieutenant-Colonel of Royal Engineers in the Militia of Upper Canada. In 1826 he was sent to Upper Canada, serving at Fort George (Niagara-on-the-Lake) and Kingston until 1832, when he was posted to York (Toronto). By that date he was already well known among the leading colonists. It appears that from the start he took a keen interest in all forms of colonial development, made information from his military surveys available to civilians, and did original research in geology and mineralogy [G.K. Raudzens, Dictionary of Canadian Bibliography].
Price: $750.00